Pedro Blas González, PhD

Professor González joined the Barry faculty in 1998. He earned a BA degree from the University of Alabama in 1987, MA from DePaul University in 1989, and PhD from DePaul in 1995. Area of Specialization: Ortega y Gasset, Spanish-Latin American Philosophy, German Idealism, Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of History, and Essentialism. Area of Competence: History of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Twentieth Century French Philosophy, Epistemology, History of Ideas, and English & Spanish Philosophical Literature. Languages: English and Spanish Professional Interests: Professor González's professional interests include the relationship that exists between subjectivity, self-knowledge, personal autonomy and philosophy; ancient Greek philosophy; the thought of Schopenhauer, Albert Camus, Louis Lavelle, Karl Jaspers and the relationship between form and philosophical vocation. BOOKS PUBLISHED Fantasia: A Novel (e-book), 2012 Philosophical Perspectives on Cinema, (e-book), 2011 Dreaming in the Cathedral, (e-book), 2010 Unamuno: A Lyrical Essay, Floricanto Press, 2007. Ortega's 'The Revolt of the Masses' and the Triumph of the New Man, Algora Publishing, 2007. Fragments: Essays in Subjectivity, Individuality and Autonomy, Algora Publishing, 2005. Human Existence as Radical Reality: Ortega's Philosophy of Subjectivity, Paragon House, 2005. BOOK CHAPTERS PUBLISHED "The Failure of Marxism through the Frankfurt School and Jürgen Habermas" in Walk Away: When the Political Left Turns Right. Editors Lee Trepanier and Grant Havers. Lexington Books, August 2019. "Meaning and Purpose in the Thought of José Ortega y Gasset" in The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers. Edited by Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia. New York: Routledge Publishing, June 2018. "Noble Man and Self-Reflection in Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses" in Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times. Editors, Richard Avramenko and Ethan Alexander-Davey. Lanham: Lexington Books, May 2018. "Las implicaciones sociales y filosóficas del Español y el Espanglish" in Español O Espanglish: Cual es el futuro de nuestra lengua en los Estados Unidos? Maricel Mayor Marsan. Editor. Miami: Ediciones Baquiana, Fall 2006. SCHOLARLY ARTICLES, ESSAYS, BOOK, MUSIC, AND FILM REVIEWS "Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea: Fishing, Work and Irony." New English Review, (August 1, 2021), 1-16. "Michael Crichton and the Height of Postmodern Scientism." New English Review, (July 1, 2021), 1-10. "Ortega y Gasset's Philosophy of Existence in the Modern Theme." Voegelin View, (June 15, 2021), 1-15. "Futurism and the Human Person." New English Review, (June 1, 2021), 1-8. "The Dassault Adventure: A First Century of Aviation." Aviation Book Reviews, (May 9, 2021), 1-2. "Springtime for Nihilism." New English Review, (April 1, 2021), 1-9. "The Future of Intelligence and the Intelligentsia." New English Review, (March 1, 2021), 1-12. "Viewing Reality Through an Impressionistic Eye." Voegelin View, (February 7, 2021), 1-13. "Evil in Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony." New English Review, (February 1, 2021), 1-12. "Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher's Thought & Work." Imaginative Conservative, (January 27, 2021), 1-13. "2021, The Normalization of Color Revolutions." New English Review, (January 1, 2021), 1-14. "Good and Evil in C. S. Lewis" Space Trilogy. New English Review, (December 1, 2020), 1-9. "Philosopher's Adagio" (Part II). Voegelin View, (November 18, 2020), 1-10. "Philosopher's Adagio: Intuition and the Apprehension of Form" (Part I). Voegelin View, (November 17, 2020), 1-10. "Darkness Visible in J. G. Ballard's Concrete Island and High-Rise." New English Review, (November 1, 2020), 1-11. "A Canticle for Leibowitz." New English Review, (October 1, 2020), 1-11. "The Symmetrical House of Form: Aesthetics of the Lived-Experience." (Part IV). Voegelin View, (September 4, 2020), 1-17. "The Symmetrical House of Form: Happiness and Joy." (Part III). Voegelin View, (September 3, 2020), 1-15. "The Symmetrical House of Form: The Economics of Being and The Struggle for Existence in Prehistory." (Part II). Voegelin View, (September 2, 2020), 1-20. "The Symmetrical House of Form." (Part I). Voegelin View, (September 1, 2020), 1-18. "Nicolás Gómez-Dávila, Philosopher Extraordinaire." New English Review, (September 1, 2020), 1-9. "Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz's Insatiability." New English Review, (August 1, 2020), 1-15. "Louis L'Amour and Natural Aristocracy." New English Review, (July 1, 2020), 1-11. "Why Western Democracies are not Interested in Truth." The Epoch Times, (June 26, 2020), 1-6. "Camus and the Order of Human Reality." Voegelin View, (June 24, 2020), 1-10. "Eric Hoffer, the Working Philosopher." New English Review, (June 1, 2020), 1-12. "Imagination, Innocence and Postmodernism." Sydney trads, (May 23, 2020), 1-9. "Chapman Pincher's Not With a Bang and Coronavirus. New English Review, (May 1, 2020), 1-10. "Tom Wolfe and the Ascent of Mass Man." New English Review, (April 1, 2020), 1-11. "Philosophy as Existential Creative Act." VoegelinView, (March 25, 2020), 1-10. "Walking in Manhattan and Böcklin's Isle of the Dead." New English Review, (March 1, 2020), 1-7. "Scientism is not Science." The University Bookman, (February 16, 2020), 1-17. "Michel Houellebecq's Serotonin: A Novel." New English Review, (February 1, 2020), 1-10. "Tom Wolfe's Mastery of Postmodern America." New English Review, (January 1, 2020), 1-11. "A Manifesto of Neo-Romanticism." The Imaginative Conservative, December 6, 2019), 1-29. "Generations X, Y, and Z and the Future of Democracy." New English Review, (December 1, 2019), 1-12. "Time is a Tiger: The Imaginative Worlds of Jorge Luis Borges." Oklahoma Humanities Magazine, (Fall/Winter 2019), 1-10. "Past and Future Gulags, Part II. New English Review, (November 1, 2019), 1-12. "The Painted Word" (Book review). Midwest Book Review, (November 1, 2019) 1-5. "Past and Future Gulags, Part I." New English Review. (October 2, 2019), 1-13. "John Deere: Yesterday & Today." (Book review). Midwest Book Review. (October 1, 2019), 1-4. "Jean François Revel, The Totalitarian Impulse, and Intellectuals." New English Review. (September 2, 2019), 1-10. "Ancestry, Time, and the Intimacy of Being." The University Bookman. (August 18, 2019), 1-12. "J. G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition and Postmodern Dystopia." New English Review. (August 1, 2019), 1-13. "My America: A Portrait of Exile." New English Review. (July 2, 2019), 1-13. "Maigret and the Calame Report." (Book review). Midwest Book Review. (July 1, 2019), 1-3. "Faith." (Book review). Midwest Book Review. (July 1, 2019), 1-3. "How Airliners Fly: A Passenger's Guide." (Book review). Aviation Book Review. (June 23, 2019), 1-2. "Past and Future Gulags." Sydney Trads. (June 9, 2019), 1-20. "Driving Honda: Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company." (Book review), Midwest Book Review. (June 2, 2019), 1-2. Blurb in Benedict Rattigan's book Gabriel's Law. Joseph Johnson Publisher. (May 20, 2019), 2019. "Intuition and Virtue in Miguel Delibes' Las Ratas." New English Review. (May 1, 2019), 1-10. "Conciencia y virtud en Las Ratas de Miguel Delibes." Circulo: Revista de Cultura, Volumen XLVI (April 2019), 128-136. "Perspectivism, Form, and Objective Reality in Mies Van Der Rohe's Architecture and Ortega y Gasset's Thought" Voegelin View. (April 6, 2019), 1-11. "A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres." (Book review) Midwest Book Review. (April 4, 2019), 1-3. "US Navy PBY Catalina Units of the Atlantic War." (Book review). Aviation Book Review. (April 4, 2019), 1-3. "The Clash of the Cultures: Investment Versus Speculation." (Book review). Midwest Book Review. (April 4, 2019), 1-4. "Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement." New English Review. (April 1, 2019), 1-12. "A Manifesto of Ne-Romanticism." Sydney Trads. (March 25, 2019), 1-21. "Like a Jazz Score: The Sense for Life." The University Bookman. (March 17, 2019), 1-15. "Happiness, Subjectivism, and Subjectivity." Voegelin View. (February 7, 2019), 1-10. "Ortega's Philosophy of History." Disputatio: Philosophical Research Bulletin. Vol. 7 No. 8. (February 6, 2019), 1-11. "Ernest K. Gann's Flying Circus." (Book review). Aviation Book Review .(February 5, 2019), 1-4 "Scientism, Reflection, and God." Sydney Trads. (January 11, 2019), 1-10. "Happiness and Children." New English Review. (January 5, 2019), 1-9. "747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation." (Book review). Midwest Book Review. (January 4, 2019), 1-4. "Jenny Was No Lady." (Book review). Midwest Book Review. (January 4, 2019), 1-3. "Oblique Views: Aerial Photography and Archaeological Photography." (Book review). Aviation book Review. (January 4, 2019), 1-4. "B-52 Superfortress: The Complete History of the World's Longest Serving and Best Known Bomber". (Book review), Aviation Book Review. (December 31, 2018), 1-4. "A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2008-14." (Book review), Aviation Book Review. (December 23, 2018), 1-5. "RA-8 Crusader Over Cuba and Vietnam." (Book review), Aviation Book Review. (December 17, 2018), 1-4. RA-5 Vigilante Units in Combat. (Book review), Aviation Book Review. (December 9, 2018), 1-4. "F-111 & EF-111 Units in Combat. (Book review), Aviation Book Review. (December 8, 2018), 1-3. "Pop Socialism, Circa 2018." New English Review. (December 4, 2018), 1-9. "On Happiness as Harmony." The University Bookman. (December 3, 2018), 1-7. "The Future of the Intelligentsia." (Review of Charles Maurras' book). Midwest Book Review. (December 2, 2018). Volume 18, No. 12, 1-4. "The History of Ornithology (Review of Historie de L'Ornithologie). Midwest Book Review. (December 2, 2018), Volume 18, No. 12, 1-5. "F9F Panther Units of the Korean War.(Book Review). Aviation Book Review. (December 1, 2018), 1-4. "U.S. Navy and Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War." (Book Review). Aviation Book Reviews. (November 20, 2018), 1-4. "Marxism and Secularism's Cultural Overreach. Sydney Traditionalist Forum. (November 3, 2018), p. 1-6. "The Right Stuff." (Book Review). Mid West Book Review, Volume 18, No. 11. (November 2, 2018), 1-4. "The Hunger Angel". (Book Review). Mid West Book Review, Volume 18, No. 11. (November 2, 2018), 1-3. "The Third Revelation: The Rosary Chronicles. (Book Review). Mid West Book Review, Volume 18, No. (November 2, 2018),11., 1-3. "Relic of Time: The Rosary Chronicles. (Book Review). Mid West Book Review, Volume 18, No.11. (November 2, 2018), 1-4. "Keats' Negative Capability and Ontological Mystery." Sydney Traditionalist Forum. (June 2018), p.1-7. "The Praise of Folly" (Book review). Social Matter. (June 15, 2018), p. 1-5. "The flight: Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal Transatlantic Crossing" (Book review). Aviation Book Reviews.(June 2018), p.1-4. "Hoffer and the True Believers." The University Bookman. (May 1, 2018), p.1-11. "Cultural Marxism, Antonio Gramsci, and The Frankfurt School." Voegelin View. (March 31, 2018), p. 1-18. "Ortega on Metaphysics." Disputatio: Philosophical Research Bulletin. Vol. 6, No. 7 (2018), p. 199-209. "The Wright Brothers." (Book review of David McCullough's book). Midwest Book Review. (March 3, 2018),p. 1-5. "A-3 Skywarrior." (Book review). Midwest Book Review. (March 3, 2018), p. 1-4. "Voegelin on Plato's Laws." Voegelin View. (February 3, 2018), 1-17. "The First Man." (Book review of Albert Camus' book). Midwest Book Review. (February 3, 2018), p. 1-5. "Airman's Odyssey." (Book review of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book). Midwest Book Review. (February 3, 2018), p. 1-6. "Charles Lindbergh's Philosophy of Vital Instinct." Imaginative Conservation. (January 4, 2018), 1-10. "Nicolas Gomez-Davila's Critique of Modernity." Intellectual Takeout. (December 22, 2017), p-1-4. "Orville Wright: How we Invented the Airplane." (Book review). Aviation Book Reviews. (November 1, 2017), 1-7. "Around the World in Eight Days: The Flight of the Winnie Mae." (Book review). Midwest Book Review. Volume 17, Number 10. (October 2, 2017), 1-5. "Schiller and the Two Drives of the Person." The University Bookman. (Summer 2017), 1-8. "Oblique Views: Aerial Photography and Southwest Archaeology." (Book review). Real Clear Books. (September 25, 2017), 1-5. "Flight: 100 Years of Aviation." (Book review). Aviation Book Reviews. (September 3, 2017), 1-5. "The Shepherd." (Book review of Frederick's Forsyth's book). Midwest Book Review. Volume 12, Number 9. (September 3, 2017), 1-4. "The Ghost of Flight 401." (Book review). Midwest Book Reviews. Volume 12, Number 9. (September 3, 2017), 1-5. "The Soul of Post Modern Man." Real Clear Books. (July 25, 2017), 1-4. "Can Only a God Save Us Now?" Imaginative Conservation. (July 24, 2017), 1-18. "DC-9/MD-11 - At the Gate No. 1." Aviation Book Reviews. (August 2, 2017), 1-4. "The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed & Lorraine Warren." Midwest Book Review. (July, 2017), 1-5. "The Boeing 787: Dreamliner." Aviation Book Reviews. (June 5, 2017), 1-3. "Higher: 100 Years of Boeing." Aviation Book Reviews. (February 6, 2017), 1-2. "When Time Was Measured in Decades: Miguel Delibes' Viejas historias de Castilla la vieja." The University Bookman. (Winter 2017), 1-9. "Perspicuity and Existential Alertness in José Ortega y Gasset's Meditations on Hunting." Disputatio: Philosophical Research Bulletin. Vol 5 No. 6 (2016), p. 395-403. "Dos Passos and Century's End." The University Bookman. (December 8, 2016), 1-9. Book reviews of: Gilgamesh; Elmer Kelton's The Time it Never Rained and Richard E. Byrd's Alone. The University Bookman. (Spring 2016), 2. "Nosferatu the Vampyre." Senses of Cinema: Cinémathèque Annotations on Film (March 2016), 1-5. "Nicolás Gómez-Dávila: La Sabiduria Contra El Modernismo." Circulo: Revista De Cultura. Volumen XLIV, (Fall 2015), 159-164. "The Courage of Lewis and Clark." The University Bookman. (February 8, 2016), 1-8. "Schopenhauer and Postmodern Ethical Affectation." The University Bookman. (November 30, 2015), 1-13. "An Old Tale, Retold: John Gardner's Grendel." The University Bookman (August 10, 2015), 1-11. "Intuition and Virtue in Miguel Delibes' Las Ratas." Bunbury Magazine (July 13, 2015), Issue Nine, 45-49. "Metaphysics as the Foundation of Science: Heidegger's TheQuestion Concerning Technology." Philosophy Pathways (April 22, 2015), Issue 193, 1-23. "Nicolas Gomez Davila : A South American Sage." Modern Age: A Quarterly Review, (Spring 2015), Volume 57, No. 1, 77-81. "Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and the Faith that Comes by Hearing." The University Bookman, (Spring 2015), 1-18. "La Filosofía y La Inmortalidad en Del Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida, de Unamuno." Circulo: Revista de Cultura, Volumen XLIII, (Fall 2014), 152-158. "Time and Permanence in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets." The University Bookman, (Fall 2014), 1-8. "The Future of the West in the Thought of Muggeridge and Ortega y Gasset."The University Bookman, (Spring 2014), 1-7. "The Economics of Being: The Struggle for Existence in Prehistory" Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology, Volume 11, Issue 1 (Summer 2014), p. 23-39. "Meaning and Boredom in Heidegger and Macbeth." Center for European Renewal, Issue 9, (Winter 2014), p. 37-39. "Baltasar Gracian: La literatura y la maxima como expresion existencial." Circulo: Revista de Cultura, Volumen XLII, (March 29, 2014), p. 45-50. "Happiness or Joy?" The University Bookman, (January 19, 2014), p. 1-11. "Plato's Idea of the Teacher." Part Two. The University Bookman, (May 12, 2013), p. 1-7. "Human Nature, Allegory, and Truth In Plato's Republic." Part One. The University Bookman, (May 5, 2013), p. 1-10. "Michael Polanyi: Tacit Knowledge, Articulation and Economics." Philosophy for Business. Issue 75, (December 2012), p. 18-34. "La Inmortalidad del Alma en el Cuento El Fantasma de Enrique Anderson Imbert." Circulo: Revista de Cultura. Volumen XLI, (Fall 2012), p. 204-209. "Friedrich Hayek: The Creation of the Mont Pèlerin Society and 'the Facts of the Social Sciences.'" Philosophy for Business. (April 24, 2012) Issue 73, p. 1-18. "Spirit, Essence and Form in William Wordsworth's The Prelude." Pathways in Philosophy. (Spring 2012) Issue 171, p. 40-62. "Borges: Filósofo de la imaginación y el tiempo." Circulo: Revista de Cultura.Volumen XL, (Fall 2011), p. 63-68. "Ludwig von Mises: Economist and Philosophical Anthropologist." Philosophy for Business. Number 70, (Fall 2011), p. 1-16. "Czeslaw Milosz: Old World Values Confront Late-Modern Nihilism." Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Politics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Culture, and the Arts. Number 156, (Fall 2011) p. 153-166. "Perspectivism, Form and Objective Reality in Mies van der Rohe's Architecture and Ortega y Gaseet's Thought. Philosophy Pathways Journal. Number 166, (Fall 2011) p. 3-23. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, or Socrates in the Desert." Senses of Cinema. Issue 59, (Summer 2011), p. 1-21. "The Uninvited and Dead of Night: The Transcendent Other." Senses of Cinema. Issue 58, (Spring 2011), p. 1-12. "Intellectuals as True Believers." Orthodoxy Today, (June 25, 2011), p. 1-6. "Transcendence, Myth, and the Future of Man." Orthodoxy Today, (April 18, 2011), p.1-4. "Once Upon a Time in China." Cinémathéque: Annotations on Cinema, (Spring 2011), p. 1-3. "James Gould Cozzens: Morning Noon and Night." Spike Magazine: Books, Music, Art, Ideas, (February 19, 2011), p.1-3. "Ortega y Gasset's Metaphysical Cure for Invertebrate Cultures." The University Bookman, (Winter 2011), p. 1-6. "Citizen Kane: Biography and the Unfinished Sentence." Senses of Cinema, Issue 57, (fall 2010), p. 1-19. "The Structure of Crystals." (Review of Krzysztof Zanussi's film). Cinematheque Annotations on Cinema, Issue 57, (fall 2010), p. 1-4. "A Letter to Camus." Istanbul Literary Review, Issue 18, (summer 2010), p. 1-8. "Fahrenheit 451: A Brave New World for the New Man." Senses of Cinema, Issue, 55, (summer 2010), p. 1-18. "Schopenhauer on Conscience as the Ground of Ethics." Proceedings of the Friesian School, (May 9, 2010), p. 1-13. "Stanley Kubrick's 2001: An Existential Odyssey." Senses of Cinema, Issue 52, (fall 2009), p. 1-10. "Jean-Francois Revel and Anti-Americanism." The Preceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series, (July 29, 2010), p, 1-20. "Liberty, Youth, and Fidelity to Truth in the Open society," (October 5, 2010), Orthodoxy Today, p. 1-5. "The Firemen's Ball." (Review of Milos Foreman's film). Cinémathéque Annotations on Film. Issue 55, (summer 2010), p.1-4. "Of Virtue and Respect in Daily Life." Orthodoxy Today, (May 29, 2010), p. 1-4. "The Tired World: That Old Ennui." Orthodoxy Today, (May 7, 2010) p. 1-4. "The Persistence of Memory." Aphelion: Science Fiction and Fantasy, (April 19, 2010), Issue 142, Volume 14. p. 1-19. "Nights of Cabiria." (Review of Fellini's film). Cinémathéque Annotations on Film.Issue 54, (spring 2010), p. 1-4. "The Third Revelation." (Review of Ralph McInerny's book. January Magazine, January 1, 2010), p.3. "Smiles of a Summer Night." (Film Review). Senses of Cinema: Annotations on Film, (March 9, 2010) p. 1-2. "The Man at Table Five." Bewildering Stories. Issue 361, (November 16, 2009), p. 1-19. "The New Man Revisited." Orthodoxy Today, (September 28, 2009), p. 1-3. "Iwayu." Cantaraville: An International Literary Quarterly. Volume VII, (summer 2009), p. 53-63. "A Thousand Deaths Plus One." (Review of Sergio Ramirez's novel). January Magazine, (May 25, 2009), p. 1-2. "Some Aspects of the New Man." Intellectual Conservative, (March 31, 2009), 1-4. "Ceiling Zero." (Film Review). Senses of Cinema: Annotations on Film, (February 2, 2009) p.1-4. "What the Futurists Neglect to Tell Us." Intellectual Conservative, January 16, 2009), 1-6. "The Many Uses of a College Education. Intellectual Conservative, (December 8, 2008), p. 1-3. "John Milton's Paradise Lost." Spike Magazine, (August 1, 2008), p. 2 "Dylansesque Live: The London Sessions." Blue Coupe Magazine, (April 16, 2008), p.1-3. "Rosemary's Baby." Senses of Cinema: Annotations on Cinema, (March 17, 2008), p.1. "Memory Almost Full." Review of Paul McCartney's album. Blue Coupe Magazine, (January 27, 2008), p. 1-3. "An Incomplete History of World War II." Review of Edwin Kiester's book. January Magazine, (October 22, 2007), p.1-2. "Historical Dictionary of Epistemology." Review of Ralph Baergen's book. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science, Vol. 14, No. 1/2, (fall/winter 2007), p. 323-324. "Amateur Photographer." Review of Irina Gedrovich's documentary. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science, Vol. 14, No. 1/2, (fall/winter 2007), p. 388-389. "Redeeming the Time." Review of Russell Kirk's book. Midwest Book Review, (October 2007), p. 16-17. "Loyal Comrades, Ruthless Killers: The Secret Services of the USSR 1917-1991." Review of Slava Katamidze's book. January Magazine, (September 17, 2007), p. 2-3. "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman. Review of Richard Feynman's book. Spike Magazine, (September 15, 2007), p. 1-2. "A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind." Review of Jack S. Crumley's book. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science, Vol. 14, No. 1/2), (spring/summer 2007) p. 141-143. "A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet's Future." Review of Roger S. Gottlieb's book. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science, (Vol. 14, No. 1/2), (spring/summer 2007), p. 143-145. "Psychotherapy and Religion: Many Paths, One Journey." Review of Marcella Bakur Weiner, Paul C. Cooper, and Claude Barbre's book. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science, (Vol. 14, No. 1/2), (spring/summer 2007), p.170-171. "The Hermitage Dwellers." Review of Aliona van der Horst's documentary. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science, (Vol. 14, No. 1/2), (spring/summer 2007) p. 186-188. "Joe Zawinul "Brown Street." Jazz music review. Blue Coupe Magazine, (August 1. 2007), p. 1-3. "In the Belly of Guile." Short Story. Bewildering Stories Magazine, (April 30, 2007), p.1-17. "Ecce Cor Meum." Review of Paul McCartney's classical composition. Blue Coupe Magazine, (April 18, 2007), p.1-2. "The Albanian Affairs." Review of Susan Fortes' book. January Magazine, (March 12, 2007), p. 1-2. "Paradise Mislaid: How we Lost Heaven and how we can Regain It." Review of Jeffrey Burton Russell's book. January Magazine, (January 8, 2007), p. 1-3. "Herbert von Karajan in Rehearsal and Performance." Classical music review. Blue Coupe Magazine, (January 2, 2007), p.1. "Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science. Volume 13, Number 3/4, (fall 2006), p. 385-387. "Andrei Tarkovsky: Truth Endorsed by Life." Senses of Cinema, Issue 49 (Winter 2009), p. 1-30. "Seven Thieves: Making the World Gasp." Senses of Cinema. Issue 47 (Spring 2008), p. 1-18. "Unamuno: Of Immortality and Essence Objectified." Istanbul Literature Review. Number 11 (May 2008), p. 1-18. "Julian Marias: La antropologia metafisica y el significado de la vocación filosófica." Circulo: Revista de Cultura. Volume XXXVI, (Fall 2007), p. 168-174. "Curse of the Demon: Of Evil, Myth and Reason." Senses of Cinema. Issue 45 (Fall 2007), p. 1-11. "Miguel de Unamuno: Of Poets and Mortals." Istanbul Literature Review. Number 8 (Summer 2007), p. 25-41. "Jean-Pierre Melville: Encounters with Conscience." Senses of Cinema. Issue 40 (Fall 2006), p. 31-61. "La filosofia como creaccion eclectica vital." Circulo: Revista de Cultura. Volumen XXXIV (Fall 2005), p. 150-160. "Jacques Tati: Last Bastion of Innocence." Senses of Cinema. Issue 37, (Fall 2005), p. 1-11. "Intellectuals, Humanism and Democracy." Orthodoxy Today. (September 5, 2005), p.1-6. "Camus' Hero of the Absurd." Proceedings of the Friesian School. Fourth Series (Spring 2005), p. 1-24. "Solipsism and Immortality in Enrique Anderson Imbert's El Fantasma." Pennsylvania English.Vol. 26, No.1-2 (Spring 2004), p. 43-60. "Florinda Alzaga: Filosofia, personalismo y trascendencia." Circulo: Revista de Cultura. Volumen XXXIII (Fall 2004), p. 78-88. "La Postura Existencial de Ortega y Gasset y Jean-Paul Sartre." Revista Literaria Baquiana, Año V. Numero 29/30 (Spring 2004), p.133-141. "La naturaleza de las ideas y las creencias en Ortega y Gasset." Linden Lane Magazine, Vol. XXII. Nos. 2,3,4, (Winter 2003), p. 25-26. "Perspectivismo, formalismo y la realidad objetiva en el pensamiento de Ortega y Gasset y la arquitectura de Mies van der Rohe." Sincronia: A Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. (Summer 2003), p.1-19. "Biographical Life and Ratio-Vitalism in the Thought of Ortega y Gasset." Philosophy Today.Vol. 46, No. 4 (Spring 2003), p. 406-418. "La filosofía, el intelectual y la democracia en el pensamiento de Jean-Francois Revel." Gaceta Cultural Hispánica del Norte. Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2002), p.46-50. "Contemplative Parallels: The Metaphysical Proximity of Valery's 'Conscious Calculation' to Ortega's "Biographical Life." Providence: Studies in Western Civilization. Vol. 7, No.1 (Summer 2002), p. 70-84. "The Role of the Intellectual in the Open Society: The Case Against Ideology." Explorations: Journal for Adventurous Thought. Vol. 20, No.3 (Spring 2002), p. 5-24. "Plato's Republic: A Philosophical Inquiry." Journal for Adventurous Thought. Vol. 19, No.4 (Summer 2001), p. 51-62. "Metaphysics as the Foundation of Science: Is Reflection Enough to Counterbalance the Coming-to-Presence of the Being of Technology?" Explorations: Journal for Adventurous Thought. Vol.18, No.1 (Fall 1999), p. 15-34. "Half A Century of Philosophy" (A first-time translation and introduction of Jose Ortega Y Gasset's: 1951 essay "Medio siglo de Filosofia,") Philosophy Today. Vol.42:2 (August 1998), p. 115-125. * In addition to these publications, Dr. Gonzalez has published over one hundred seventy-five other articles, essays and reviews. ESSAY PUBLICATIONS AS A COLUMNIST FOR THE AMERICANO (February 3, 2017) Higher: 100 Years of Boeing. Book Review. Aviation Book Reviews, p. 2-3. (November 25, 2011) "Literary Thanksgiving," p. 1-2. (October 17, 2011) "Steve Jobs and the Entrepreneurial Spirit," p. 1-2. (August 10, 2011) "Appearance, Reality, and the National Debt Ceiling," P. 1-4. (July 7, 2011) "Taking the Pulse of Daily Life," p. 1-2. (June 3, 2011) "In Praise of Exile," p. 1-5. (May 4, 2011) "America, Americans," p. 1-3. (April 22, 2011) "Our Dismal Current State of Space Exploration," p. 1-7. (April 1, 2011) "Some Lessons that the World can Learn from the 2011 Japan Earthquake," p. 1-3. (February 22, 2011) "My School Days Memories of Ronald Reagan," p. 1-5. (February 7, 2011) "The Human Legacy of Racers Jose Froilán Gonzalez and Juan Manuel Fangio," p. 1-3. (December 20, 2010) "I Am Cuba," p. 1-4. (December 10, 2010) "Another Sunday That Will Never Return," p. 1-3. (November 24, 2010) "Thanksgiving and Our Need for Humility," p. 1-3. (November 16, 2010) "Marco Rubio and the Pursuit of the American Dream," p. 1-4. (November 11, 2010) "A Walk Through Manhattan," p. 1-4. (October 22, 2010) "La Carrera Panamericana," p. 1-3. (October 11, 2010) "Julian Marias, Part III: The Media and the Role of Public Intellectuals." (October 8, 2010) "Mario Vargas Llosa Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature." (October 4, 2010) "Julian Marias, Part II: Philosophical Anthropology." (September 20, 2010) "Julian Marias and the Importance of Philosophical Reflection." (September 13, 2010) "Pedro Rodriguez Winner of the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans." (August 25, 2010) "Human Life as Intuition and Aesthetic Contemplation." (August 12, 2010) "My Travels with Thoreau." (July 27, 2010) "On Visiting Edgar Allan Poe's Grave." (July 13, 2010) "Eric Hoffer: The Working Philosopher." (June 29, 2010) "Cuba and the Logic of Sustainable Barbarism." (June 21, 2010) "The Joy of Literature." (June 8, 2010) "Some Reasons Why No One is a Prophet in Their Own Land." (May 31, 2010) "In Praise of Folly." (May 21, 2010) "Borges: Philosopher of Time and the Imagination." (May 12, 2010) "Cinema and Forms of Human Reality." (April 22, 2010) "Sacrifice in Family Life and Values." (April 8, 2010) "Mario Vargas Llosa and the Noble Prize." (March 2, 2010) "Cinema as Humanism Seeking Transcendence." (February 16, 2010) "The Corrosive Nature of Cynicism." (February 5, 2010) "The Force of Good Will: American and Christian Values." (January 20, 2010) "Felix Martí-Ibáñez: Philosopher of Culture and Free Will." (January 5, 2010) "Some Reflections on the Future." (December 24, 2009) "Christmas in America Circa 2009." (December 9, 2009) "Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and the Imitation of Christ." (November 25, 2009) "A Cuban-American Thanksgiving." (November 10, 2009) "A New Philosophy of Immigration." (October 27, 2009) "Intellectuals, Democracy and Good Will." (October 14, 2009) "The New Man Unmasked." SELECTED PRESENTATIONS "Philosophy, Literature, and Neo-Romanticism." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Literature & Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. November 22, 2019. "Scientism, Existential Reflection, and God." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Philosophy Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. October 11, 2019. "Jürgen Habermas & The Frankfurt School." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Philosophy Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. April 3, 2019. "Unamuno's Novel Mist: A Life Lived from Within." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Great Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. February 27, 2019. "Vital Symmetry in Philosophy and Literature." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Great Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores. October 31, 2018. "Metaphysics and the Immortality of the Soul." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Philosophy Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores. September 26, 2018. "Philosophy and the City: Pompeii 79 AD and Manhattan Circa 2018." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Great Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. March 28, 2018. "Plato's Laws." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Philosophy Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. February 14, 2018. "Meaning and the Moral Sense in Heidegger and Macbeth." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Great Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. November 1, 2017. "Ortega y Gasset and the Meaning of Life." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Philosophy Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. September 27, 2017. "Miguel Delibes: Con el Pasar del Tiempo en Castilla la Vieja." XXXVII Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami Dade College West Campus. Miami, Florida. July 27, 2017. "A Coffin for Dimitrios: Existential Subjects in Sinister Situations." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Great Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami, Florida. March 29, 2017. "Metaphilosophy: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence & the Dyson Sphere Theory." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Philosophy Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami, Florida. February 15, 2017. "God, Atheism, and Post-Modernity." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Philosophy Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. November 9, 2016. "Exploring Keats and Schiller." Barry University Great Books Lecture Series. Miami, Florida. October 12, 2016. "Ortega y Gasset y el tema de nuestro tiempo": La conversión de la razón pura en razón vital. XXXVI Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida. July 23, 2016. "The Joy of Literature: Borges, Vargas Llosa, Cabrera-Infante, Èmile Zola, Fleming, and the Imaginary Reviews of I.M. Peterson." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Great Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. March 23, 2016. "Miguel de Unamuno:The Tragic Sense of Life." Dr. Pedro Blas Gonzalez Philosophy Lecture Series. Miami, Florida. February 10, 2016 "Importance and Expression in John Gardner's Grendel." Barry University Great Books Lecture Series. Miami, Florida. November 4, 2015. "Schopenhauer on Conscience as the Ground of Morality." Barry University Philosophy Lecture Series. Miami, Florida. September 30, 2015. "Conciencia y virtud en Las Ratas de Miguel Delibes." XXXV Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida. July 25, 2015. "Nobility of Spirit and Reflection as Vocation in Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses." Barry University Philosophy Lecture Series. Miami Shores, Florida. March 18, 2015. "Meaning, Purpose, and Character in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe." Barry University Great Books Lecture Series. Miami Shores, Florida. February 18, 2015. "El Pensamiento Filosofico de Jose Marti." New Professional Technical Institute. Miami, Florida. January 30, 2015. "Essence, Soul, and Redemption in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Barry University Great Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. November 5, 2014. "Albert Camus: The Moral and Existential Courage of The First Man.” Barry University Philosophy Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. October 1, 2014. "Nicolás Gómez-Dávila: la sabiduria contra el modernismo.” XXXIV Congress of the Círculo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida. July 27, 2014. "The Passage of Time in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets.” Barry University Great Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. April 2, 2014. "Metaphysics as the Foundation of Science: Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology.” Barry University Philosophy Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. February 26, 2014. "La filosofia y la inmortalidad en El Sentimiento Tragico de la Vida de Unamuno.” XXXIII Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida. July 29, 2013. "The Economics of Being: The Struggle for Existence in Prehistory.” Barry University Economics and Social Justice Lecture Series. Barry University Library. April 17, 2013. "Human Nature, Allegory and Truth in Plato's Republic.” Barry University Great Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. February 20, 2013. "Michael Polanyi: Tacit Knowledge and Economics.” Barry University Economics and Social Justice Lecture Series. Barry University Library. November 28, 2012. "Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea: Fishing, Life and Work.” Barry University Great Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. October 31, 2012. "Baltasar Gracian: La literatura y la maxima como expresion existencial.” XXXII Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida, July 28, 2012. "Friedrich Hayek: The Creation of the Mont Pelerin Society and the "Facts of the Social Sciences.” Barry University Economics and Social Justice Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. April 11, 2012. "Spirit, Essence and Form in William Wordsworth's The Prelude.” Barry University Great Books Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. March 21, 2012. "Ludwig von Mises: Economist and Philosophical Anthropologists.” Barry University Economics and Social Justice Lecture Series. Barry University. Miami Shores, Florida. October 26, 2011. "La inmortalidad del alma en el cuento ‘El fantasma’ de Enrique Anderson Imbert.” XXXI International Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida, July 23, 2011. "Borges: Filosofo de la imaginación y el tiempo.” XXX International Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida, July 24, 2010. "Algunos aspectos del hombre nuevo.” XXVIII Internacional Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida. July 25-27, 2008. "La vida desde dentro, o aspectos existenciales de la novela Niebla de Unamuno.” XXVII International Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida. July 29, 2007. "Julian Marias: La antropología metafísica y el significado de la vocación filosófica.” XXVI Internacional Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. University of Miami. Coral Gables, Florida. July 23, 2006. "La razon vital en Ortega y la estética modernista de Mies Van der Rohe.” XXV International Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano; Miami, Florida, July 30, 2005. "Espa˜nol o Espanglish: Implicaciones sociales, filosóficas y políticas” at the Spanish or Espanglish 2nd Annual Conference. Centro Cultural Español, CCE Miami (Cultural Offices Network of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs); June 24, 2005. "La filosofia como creación ecléctica vital.” XXIV Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida. July 25, 2004. "Saludos de una nueva generacion” at the Instituto San Carlos.” Acto de entrega de la medalla Excelencia Nacional Cubana. Teatro Roca del Colegio Belen. Belen High School. Miami, Florida. December 16, 2003. "Florinda Alzaga: Filosofia, personalismo y trascendencia.” XXIII International Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida, July 27, 2003. "Las creencias y las ideas en el pensamiento de Ortega y Gasset” at the University of Miami's Instituto Cultural Hispano-Americano. Miami, Florida, June 10, 2003. "La postura existencial de Ortega y Gasset y Jean-Paul Sartre.” XXII Congress of the Circulo de Cultura Panamericano. Miami, Florida, July 27, 2002. "La filosofía, el Intelectual y la democracia en el pensamiento de Jean-Francois Revel.” The University of Miami's Instituto Cultural Hispano-Americano. Miami, Florida, June 7, 2002. "Radical Reality in the Thought of Ortega y Gasset.” Miami-Dade College. November 2, 1997. INVITATION AND PARTICIPATION IN LIBERTY FUND COLLOQUIA "Existentialism and Free Markets." Indianapolis, Indiana. March 8-10, 2018. "Prudence and Practical Wisdom in the Writings of Baltasar Gracian and Arthur Schopenhauer." Indianapolis, Indiana. October 15-18, 2015. "Is the Decline of Liberty Inevitable?" Tucson, Arizona. September 18-21, 2014. "Liberty, Empire, and Nationalism in the Spanish-American War." Miami, Florida. January 30-February 2, 2014. "Liberty Fund Colloquium. "International Ethics and Free Government." San Antonio, Texas. February 7-10, 2013. "Liberty Fund Colloquium." José Martí and the American Founders on Liberty and Interventionism." Miami, Florida. November 1-4. 2012. "Liberty and Authority in the Works of T.S. Eliot and Jose Ortega y Gasset." Indianapolis, Indiana. January 26-29, 2012. "Liberty and Conquest in the Americas." Indianapolis, Indiana. October 29- November 1, 2009. "Liberty, Individualism, and Rebellion in Westerns and Samurai Films." Tucson, Arizona. May 14-17, 2009. "Friedrich von Hayek: Derecho, Legislación y Libertad." Guatemala City, Guatemala. January 29-February 1, 2009. "Responsibility and Individuality in Jorge Luis Borges." Miami Beach, Florida. December 18-21, 2008. "Hayek and von Mises on Liberty, Socialism and Interventionism." Indianapolis, Indiana, September 25-28, 2008. "Liberty and the Majority in the Work of Tocqueville and Ortega." (Liberty Fund events are by invitation only). Indianapolis, Indiana. August 28-31, 2008. "Democracy and Its Tension with Liberty." Big Sky, Montana. August 21, 24, 2008. Liberty Fund and Universidad Francisco Marroquin of Guatemala Colloquium. "Educación Universal, Compulsiva y Estatal." Miami, Florida, June 26-29, 2008. "John H. Hallowell on Democracy, Liberalism and Liberty." Indianapolis, Indiana. June 19-22, 2008. "Kant's Metaphysics of Liberty." Cleveland, Ohio, May 1-4, 2008. "Liberty and the Moral Imagination in Russell Kirk's Eliot and his Age. Indianapolis, Indiana. April 3-5, 2008. "Liberty and Responsibility in the Works of José Ortega y Gasset." San Francisco, California. September 6-9, 2007.