Carlos Alberto Sánchez is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University and the author of Contingency and Commitment: Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy and The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla, With a Translation of Fenomenología del relajo, both also published by SUNY Press. Francisco Gallegos is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University.

Analysis of this important Mexican philosopher's social, cultural, and political writings.