Biography and education
Alejandro Bárcenas is Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a Licenciatura (a five-year degree requiring 150 credit hours of philosophy courses and a research thesis) from the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
He is the author of Machiavelli’s Art of Politics (Brill, 2015) and co-translator of Machiavelli’s The Prince into Spanish (Los Libros de El Nacional, 1999). He recently translated Sun Tzu and Sun Pin’s Art of War (Vintage Español, 2021) and Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching (Vintage Español, 2019) into Spanish, based on the archeological texts from Yinqueshan and Mawangdui, for Penguin Random House. His research on the history of philosophy has been published in Australia, Colombia, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, the U.S. and Venezuela.
He is the author of Machiavelli’s Art of Politics (Brill, 2015) and co-translator of Machiavelli’s The Prince into Spanish (Los Libros de El Nacional, 1999). He recently translated Sun Tzu and Sun Pin’s Art of War (Vintage Español, 2021) and Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching (Vintage Español, 2019) into Spanish, based on the archeological texts from Yinqueshan and Mawangdui, for Penguin Random House. His research on the history of philosophy has been published in Australia, Colombia, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, the U.S. and Venezuela.
Featured grants
- Barcenas Pardo, Alejandro, Hanks, Craig (Co-Principal). Online Resource Grant, Albert B. Alkek Library, Texas State University – San Marcos, Texas State University, $23000. (Funded: March 2015). Grant.
- Barcenas Pardo, Alejandro. Mini-grant, Humanities Texas - State affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), State, $1500. (Funded: October 2012). Grant.
- Barcenas Pardo, Alejandro (Co-Principal). Textos y Temas Fundamentales del Pensamiento Japonés: Materiales para una Filosofía Intercultural, Government of Spain. Ministry of Economy (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad), Government of Spain. (Funded: September 2012). Grant.
- Barcenas Pardo, Alejandro. Library Research Grant, Albert B. Alkek Library, Texas State University – San Marcos, Institutional (Higher Ed), $641. (Funded: January 2012). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Barcenas Pardo, A. (2021). El Arte de la Guerra Completo. New York, NY, USA: Knopf / Vintage Español. Retrieved from https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667561/el-arte-de-la-guerra-completo-by-sun-tzu/
- Barcenas Pardo, A. (2019). Tao Te Ching. New York, USA: Knopf / Vintage Español. Retrieved from https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747329/tao-te-ching--tao-te-ching-by-lao-tzu/
- Barcenas Pardo, A. (2019). Han Fei’s Rule of Law. In The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese Ethics and Political Philosophy (pp. 155–183). London and New York, UK and USA: Bloomsbury. Retrieved from https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbury-research-handbook-of-early-chinese-ethics-and-political-philosophy-9781350355606/
- Barcenas Pardo, A. (2017). Corporate Greed and Alien/ation: Marx vs. Weyland-Yutani. In Alien and Philosophy: I infest, therefore I am (pp. 48–54). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119280873.ch5
- Barcenas Pardo, A., & Bein, S. (2016). “Make it So”: Kant, Confucius and the Prime Directive. In K. Decker & J. Eberl (Eds.), The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates (pp. 36–46). Malden MA, USA / Oxford, UK / Carlton, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119146032.ch4
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, College of Liberal Arts - Texas State University. 2014
- Award / Honor Recipient: Merit Tuition Waiver, Graduate Division of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. 2005
- Award / Honor Recipient: Pacific Asian Scholarship, Graduate Division of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. 2004
- Award / Honor Recipient: Pacific Asian Scholarship, Graduate Division of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. 2003
- Award / Honor Recipient: Pacific Asian Scholarship, Graduate Division of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. 2002
Featured service activities
- Reviewer / Referee
Philosophy East and West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy
- Reviewer / Referee
The Review of Politics
- Reviewer / Referee
State University of New York Press
- Other
Igenium: Revista Electrónica de Pensamiento Moderno y Metodología en Historia de las Ideas
- Member
General Education Committee
- Member
Travel Committee