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Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla, Kant and the Problem of Nothingness: A Latin American Study and Critique, Bloomsbury, 2024, 208pp., $39.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781350277816.
Reviewed by Morganna Lambeth, California State University Fullerton
Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla’s 1965 work, Kant and the Problem of Nothingness, has been published for the first time in English, with a translation and introduction by Addison Ellis. In this work, Mayz Vallenilla engages with two German thinkers of perennial interest to anglophone philosophers: Immanuel Kant, whose concept of nothingness, as presented in the Critique of Pure Reason, is the focus of Mayz Vallenilla’s book, and Martin Heidegger, whose own interpretation of Kant, offered in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, orients Mayz Vallenilla’s discussion. Despite his engagement with Kant and Heidegger—and despite his reputation within Latin America (ix)—Mayz Vallenilla is cited rarely in anglophone scholarship. Ellis’ translation gives us (present author included) the occasion to correct this omission and engage with Mayz Vallenilla’s fascinating…
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