ASSIGNMENT
Professor Josu Landa has worked as a Professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy of UNAM since 1988. His works of literary theory include Poética (2002), Canon city (2010), and the collections Tanteos (2009) and Ensayes (2014). His works on ethics include De archivos muertos y parques humanos en el planeta de los nimios (1999) and Éticas de crisis: cinismo, epicureísmo, estoicismo (2012). Among his verse collections are Treno a la mujer que se fue con el tiempo (1996), Estros (2006), and Extinciones (2012 and 2014). Of his most recent books are Anafábulas (2013 and 2014) and La balada de Cioran y otras exhalaciones (2016).
ScholarSHIP
The study investigates the junctures and correlations between Philosophy and the Ethics of society. Ethics observes what are appropriate courses of action. At a more fundamental level, it emerges as the study of motives for classifying our values and attributions to pursue them. Do we pursue our own happiness, or we sacrifice ourselves for a greater cause, and how are these motives based? How do they correlate with a larger social context?
Ethics is a requirement for life, and constitutes means of deciding on courses of action. Without ethics, actions become random and aimless. With rational ethical standards, we effectively organize our goals and actions to achieve our most important values. Any failure in our ethical choices reduces our ability to succeed in our efforts. A base of ethics requires a standard value for all objectives and actions to be compared. This standard is of our own life and happiness which is habitable.
PUBLICATIONS
Más allá de la palabra (1996)
Para pensar la crítica de poesía en América Latina (1997)
Poética (2000)
Aproximación al verso libre en español (2005).
Tanteos (2009)
El método en Marx (2013)
Bajos Fondos (1988)
Falasha Falaxa (1992) Edición bilingüe (Español/Vasco)
Treno a la mujer que se fue con el tiempo (1996)
La luz en el vano (1996)
Estros (2003)
Y/0. Ensamble (2004)
Extinsiones (2012)