Jorge J. E. Gracia is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of several books, including Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge, and the coeditor (with Lynette M. F. Bosch and Isabel Alvarez Borland) of Identity, Memory, and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers, both also published by SUNY Press.

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Preface

1. Art and Philosophy

2. Carlos Estévez and His Art

Part 1: Philosophical Interpretations of Estévez's Works Knowledge

3. Know Thyself

4. I Am Myself and My Circumstances

5. Everything We Know Is Numbers

6. No Man Knows the Whole Truth

7. Faith Seeks Understanding Reality

8. You Cannot Step into the Same River Twice

9. No Part of the Whole Is Empty

10. There Is No New Thing under the Sun

11. The Living Creature Is a World Order in Miniature Society

12. Negotiating Identities

13. What Then Is a Race?

14. Imagined Communities

15. I-Thou

16. Male and Female Destiny

17. The Will Does Not Desire of Necessity

18. The Very Hairs of Your Head Are All Numbered

19. God Has Predestined His Elect

Part 2: Philosophical Interpretations and Art

20. Interpretation

21. Art

22. Philosophical Interpretations of Art

Appendices
Appendix 1 Interview with Carlos Estévez
Appendix 2 Carlos Estévez's Biographical Chronology
Appendix 3 Carlos Estévez's Images of Thought, Exhibition Checklist

Notes
Bibliography
Index