The Philosophy of Accidentality
Journal of the American Philosophical Association July 28, 2020 Manuel Vargas 46 citations
In mid-twentieth-century Mexican philosophy, a nationalist existentialist project examined how cultural conditions shape human agency. This article revisits the concept of accidentality—an underappreciated experience of one's relationship to norms and social meanings. Accidentality illuminates forms of social subordination and socially scaffolded agency, including cultural alienation, biculturality, and double consciousness.