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  A Review of E. San Juan, Peirce/Marx  Speculations on Exchanges between Pragmatism and Marxism   By Prof. Paulino Lim, Emeritus Professor of English, California State University, Long Beach The title Peirce/Marx yokes two philosophers -- not with a dash but a slash -- hinting at the strategy of the monograph by E. San Juan, Jr. The subtitle reinforces this with "Speculations between Pragmatism and Marxism." Also, calling his work a "thought experiment" shows awareness that his findings will be challenged or modified by subsequent critics, as he himself does to some of his sources. San Juan attributes the awakening of his historical sensibility to the war in Indochina as part of the Cold War against China and international communism. The U.S. used its bases in the Philippines to launch its invasion of Vietnam, using counterinsurgency tactics (burning villages, executing civilians) to subjugate and colonize the Philippines. Mark Twain protested against th...

  Metakomentaryo sa Pagkakataon ng Kolokyum Ukol sa “The Places of E. San Juan, Jr.”   E. San Juan, Jr. Polytechnic University of the Philippines philcsc@gmail.com Abstract In a provisional synthesis of his lifework, E. San Juan, Jr. surveys the issues and aporias that define his critical oeuvre. He warns at the outset against the narcissism of autobiographical acts, or what he calls the selfie mode. In locating himself, San Juan uses instead the historicizing lens. In this metacommentary, San Juan locates his life project between his birth in 1938, which saw the defeat of the Republican forces in Spain and the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy, and the new millennium marked by 9/11 and imperialist terrorism. He begins with the class background of his parents and moves on to discuss his years as an undergraduate at the University of the Philippines-Diliman; his graduate education at Harvard; his collaboration with Tagalog writers; his radicalization as a professor ...

  I. PANITIKAN SA KASALUKUYANG PANAHON Modernidad at Globalisasyon: Diyalektika ng Panahon at Lugar Ni E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Polytechnic University of the Philippines Nasaan tayo ngayon at kailan nangyayari ito? Tila kabalintunaan ang nangyayari ngayon. Pagnilayin natin ang mga mungkahing sumusunod. Singkahulugan ng modernidad ang katwiran at pagkamakatao, sagisag ng pagsulong ng kabihas- nan. Sa malas, batay sa krisis sa Ukraine, Syria, patuloy na digmaan sa Af- ghanistan, Mindanao, at hidwaan tungkol sa China Sea, umuurong na tayo mula sa modernidad tungo sa barbaridad, mula globalisasyon tungo sa kumprontasy- on ng mga makasariling bansang nagpipilit ng kanilang natatanging etnisidad na namumukod sa iba. Kabaligtaran nga sa perspektiba ng rasyonal at makataong antas ng sagad-modernong milenyo sa mundo. Ibungad natin ang problemang bumabagabag sa atin: Anong uri ng mod- ernidad ang taglay ng Pilipinas? Kaugnay nito, paano mapapalaya ang potensyal ng ordinaryong araw-araw na buhay ng b...