About

Roberto Alejandro is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests include Greek philosophy and tragedies, Nietzsche, contemporary liberal theory, and American political thought.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Art
• Aesthetics
• Social psychology
• Visual arts
• Law
• Psychology
• Psychoanalysis
• History

Selected publications

• Political Disorientation and Legibility Loss in the Trumpian Years

  Philosophy and Global Affairs · 2024

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  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Aesthetics

  This essay discusses political disorientation and what I define as a legibility crisis ushered in by the election of Donald Trump in 2016. After defining these concepts, it provides evidence for them and fleshes out how they were expressed in prophecies about Trump in white evangelical communities. A legibility crisis is the realization that some fundamental aspects of the symbolic domain (language, civic values, political practices, and institutions) are no longer binding or recognizable. There is a loss of touch with what was once expected political conduct, but this loss gravitates toward something that is not fully graspable in its conceptual and emotional dimensions. In examining political disorientation, I refer to a three-dimensional condition encompassing the personal, the institutional, and the analytical. This disorientation challenges our expectations about institutional norms and forces us to realize that the respectability and legitimacy of those institutions have been hollowed out. This essay will also address the culture of prophecy in some evangelical groups and how prophetic utterances shape these groups’ understanding of the American Constitution and political reality.

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• La vulneración al principio de pluralidad de instancias en el proceso arbitral

  Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego · 2017-01-01

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  The arbitration shall live with the regular courts, but for this coexistence is harmonious, cooperative relationship between the two mechanisms to be established once the referees must understand the limitations imposed by their convivial origin, lack of imperium and order, make it necessary for judges to share the idea of arbitration as a system that cooperates in resolving conflicts, with their aid when they need to use them to enforce the award. If achieving full recognition of the fundamental procedural guarantees sheltered in the exercise of the judicial function, will be considered jurisdiction, partial jurisdiction or restricted jurisdiction in permitting their approach and recognition that the constitutional guarantees of procedural matters is no stranger and shall conform fully to them and prevent any form of violation or non-compliance. Furthermore the parties to an arbitration agree not set or before or during the arbitral process, the possibility of using a second instance through an appeal against the award, they do under the application of determination principle. The latter does not agree does not mean rejecting the particular case of this principle. But as this is a principle which requires a concurrent agreement between at least two of the parties, unable to reach agreement immediately reject the arbitration process your application, with no means or mechanism to achieve the possibility that comes into play or the first of multiple instances are active. There being no agreement based on the principle of determination, then the principle is defeated, or unenforceable pursuant to Article 62 of Legislative Decree 1071. Then the principle of plurality of instances is defeated also by the Article. There is no doubt that so keep in mind any principle as an element of due process, and the parties do not reach agreement on the configuration of instances, they will be defeated by the rule contained in Article 62 and the other principles Arbitration process. What makes the conclusion that there is a conflict and violation ’in particular’ the principle of plurality of instances per article 62 of Legislative Decree 1071.

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• Līdzdalības didaktiskās stratēģijas kā dažādības pedagoģiskais risinājums vidusskolēniem STEM kompetenču iegūšanas procesā

  2017-01-01

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• The Actuality of Philosophy: Critical Reflections on Hermeneutic Communism

  Contributions to hermeneutics · 2017-01-01

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• Hermeneutics, Politics, and Philosophy

  2015-10-23

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• Towards a Hermeneutics of Justice: Reflections on Amartya Sen's Philosophy

  Indian Journal of Human Development · 2011-01-01

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• What Is Political about Rawl's Political Liberalism?

  The Journal of Politics · 1996-02-01 · 19 citations

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  Rawls's political liberalism introduces important modifications into the idea of justice presented in A Theory of Justice. His understanding of politics is compatible with several accounts of the political realm. Though Rawls's political liberalism claims to oppose perfectionist, teleological, and utilitarian traits, his own account suggests a more complex view in which justice as fairness is not exempt from perfectionist, teleological, and utilitarian elements. Rawlsian political liberalism is governed by the centrality of juridical institutions, which are the embodiment of public reason.

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• Justice and Interpretation. By Georgia Warnke. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. 178p. $27.50.

  American Political Science Review · 1994-03-01

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• Rawls’s Communitarianism

  Canadian Journal of Philosophy · 1993-03-01 · 19 citations

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  Most discussions of Rawls’s philosophy tend to neglect the strong communitarian strand of his theory: so much so that in the debate between liberals and communitarians Rawls’s account of community has been for the most part intriguingly absent. This article is an attempt to fill in the gap by offering a discussion of the Rawlsian understanding of community as it was presented in A Theory of Justice and its possible implications for a pluralist society. At the same time, I want to take issue with one of the most influential critiques leveled against Rawls’s conception of the self: namely, Sandel’s critique of the ‘individuated subject’ that, in his view, underlies justice as fairness. Rawls’s constructions, so Sandel argues, rest on an unencumbered self that is individuated in advance and whose identity is fixed once and for all.

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Frequent coauthors

• Bahena Guajardo

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• Palacios Bran

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