Sensible Thought, Coexistence, and the Revolutioanry Impulse to Love

Elaine  PADILLA

Elaine PADILLA University of La Verne, in La Verne, California

Keywords: agonism, love, coexistence, epistemology, technocracy

Abstract

This essay locates the concept of sentido pensante or sensible thought within the recent historical events of the coronavirus pandemic to ask the question on the systems of production of epistemology. It invites the reader, at the insistence of Raúl Fornet Betancourt, to incisively investigate our current masked reality of manufactured consent, to cultivate convivencia, and to make room akin to a trench of ideas for the flourishing of a revolutionary love in our time.

Author Biography

Elaine PADILLA, University of La Verne, in La Verne, California

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Latinx/Latin American Studies. Padilla constructively interweaves current philosophical discourse with Christianity, Latin American and Latino/a religious thought, ecology, gender, and race. She is the author of Divine Enjoyment: A Theology of Passion and Exuberance published by Fordham University Press (2015), and co-editor of a three-volume project with Peter C. Phan, Theology and Migration in World Christianity published by Palgrave MacMillan:Contemporary Issues of Migration and Theology (2013), Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions(2014), and Christianities in Migration: The Global Perspective (2015). She has also published numerous articles and chapters, and is currently drafting a manuscript provisionally titled, The Darkness of Being, in which she explores views on the soul and interiority with implications for race and gender. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion and of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

elaine.padilla@gmail.com

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