Rodriguez, Agustin Martin G., Ph.D.
Contact Info
- rodriguez.amdg@gmail.com
- arodriguez@ateneo.edu
Courses
- Philosophy of Culture and Aesthetics
- Political Philosophy
- Methods of Research
Areas of Interest
- Filipino Philosophy
- Philosophy of Art
- Aesthetics
- Social Justice
- Just and Sustainable Development
- Filipino Culture
Education
Research and Publications
_____. Pag-ibig ang Katwiran ng Kasaysayan: Kapalaran at Tadhana sa Pilosopiya ni Max Scheler (Love is the Reason of History: Fate and Destiny in the Philosophy of Max Scheler), Quezon City: Office of Research and Publications, forthcoming June 2008._____. The Winding Road to Representation, Quezon City: Ateneo School of Governance, 2002.
____. Governing the Other, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2009.
_____. May Laro and Diskurso ng Katarungan, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2014.
_____. Mula Bayang Sawi Tungong Lupang Hinirang. Quezon City: Ateneo University Press, 2024.
_____. Repentance and Rebirth at the End of Life as We Know It. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2021. National Book Award Awardee 2022.
_____. Stories We Tell When We Tell Stories About Ourselves. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2025.
Rodriguez, Agustin Martin G. and Teresita Asuncion Lacandula-Rodriguez, eds., Agenda for Hope: Democratizing Governance, Quezon City: Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University, 2010.”An Agenda for Discourse: Recovering our Reason and Building a Just Society”, in Agustin Martin G. Rodriguez and Teresita Asuncion Lacandula-Rodriguez, eds. Agenda for Hope: Democratizing Governance, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Schools, 2009, 99-113.
“Ang Lahing Nananahan sa Dakong Silangan ng Eden: Manggagawa, Manlilikha,” Pagdiriwang sa Meron: Essays Celebrating Thought. Que, Nemesio and Agustin Rodriguez, eds. Quezon City: Office of Research and Publications, Ateneo de manila University, 1997.
“Apparition, Narration, and the Reappropriation of Meaning,” with Felice Noelle Rodriguez. Philippine Studies, Vol 44, Fourth Quarter 1996.
“The Blessed Land and Asin’s Prophetic Vision,” Journal of Philippine Culture and Society Volume VII, Number 1, 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.64743/BIFQ5404,
“The City and the Dynamism of Invention and Exploitation,” in Barbaza Remon, ed., Rethinking the City, (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2019).
“The Discourse of Rights,” Loyola Schools Review No.1 Vol.1, 2001.
“The Discourse of Wages: A Possible Rethinking of the Grounds of a Just Wages,” Loyola Schools Review, School of Social Sciences, 2008.
“Discoursing Disasters: Vulnerability and Gaps in Rationalities,” Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints (PSHEV), volume 64, nos. 3–4, September–December 2016.
“Diskurso at Sermon: Ang Sinabi at Sinasabi” in Francisco Blancas de San Jose, OP. Sermones. Mario Francisco, SJ, ed. Quezon City: Pulong: Office for Philippine Source Materials, 1994.
“Disturbance Beyond Totality: Transcending the Post-Modern Suspicion of Mysticism after Post-Modernism,”
“Educating the Filipino Loob,” Educational Philosophy and Theory. 2022.
“The Father as Given,” Budhi, Vol XVIII, 1 (2014).
“Governing the Other.” in Recent Philosophies in the Philippines, Manila: Philosophical Association of the Philippines, 2006.
“Grassroots Governance: A Preliminary Study of Barangay Governance,” Social Science Information, Vol. 31, No. 2, July – December 2003.
“The Ground of Solidarity in Post-metaphysical Polities: From Consensus to Discourse,” Philosophy Today, Fall 2005.
“Hope and the Social Autogeddon,” The Loyola Schools Review Humanities Edition, Vol. IV, 2005.
“How Kristo Democratized Langit,” Kritike, 2021.
“Ang Ideolohiya at Utopia: Dialektika ng Sistema at Panaginip,” Far Eastern University Journal, Vol. 5 No. 2, 1995. “Ang Persona ng Kalikasan.” Pagbabalik sa mga Bagay Mismo. Rainier Ibana, ed. (forthcoming).
“The Limits of Legislating Democracy,” Philippine Studies, January 2001.
“Marginalization and the Multiplicity of Rationalities: A Discourse Theory of Poverty,” Theory in Action, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2012.
“The Mass Raises Its Ugly Head: When the Margins Speak with Their Own Voices.” The Loyola Schools Review 7 (2008): 77-99.
“The Myth of the Party: The Liberals Between Traditional and New Politics,” Pilipinas, No. 44, March 2005.
“Of Fate, Destiny and Becoming,” Philosophy Today, Spring 2002.
“The Play of the Self: The Self as the Gift of Difference,” Budhi, 17.1 (2013).
“Problematizing Critical Theory: Arriving at a More Critical Theory,” Kritike, Vol. 13, No. 3, (April 2018).
“Postmetaphysical Solidarity: Discoursing the Deliberative Ground of a Just Social Order,” The Moral Dimension: Essays in Honor of Ramon Castillo Reyes, Nemesio S. Que, et al eds., Quezon City: OPR, 2003.
“The Priority of Differance Before Presence,” Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture, Vol. III, Nos. 2 & 3, 1999
“A Reflection with Confucius and Fugui: On the Virtuous Person and Ethical Thought,” Commentaries on Moral Philosophy, Rainier Ibana and Angelli F. Tugado, eds. Quezon City: Philippine Commission on Higher Education, 1998.
“Repentance and Rebirth at the End of Life as We Know It,” Forthcoming Asian Perspectives in the Humanities and the Arts
“Rethinking What Comes to Presence: What Heidegger Saw and the To Come,” Budhi, Vol XIII, No. 1-3, 2009.
“Revolution and the Restoration of a Moral Cosmos: The Thoughts of Bonifacio, Mabini, and Hermano Pule,” Centennial Commemorative Lectures 1998. Philippine Centennial Commission, Committee on Internal Relations, 1998.
“Si Ferriols, Ang Katamaran ng Pag-iisip, at Ang Ala-ala ng Meron,” Kritike, Vol. 12, No. 1, (June 2018).
“The Seeds of Development.” Paranaque: Center for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia, 1987.
“Those at the Margins Do Speak in their Own Voices,” Budhi Vol VIII, Nos. 1 & 2, 2004.
“The Turning: Evangelization and Uprising” in Juan de Oliver. Declaracion de la Doctrina Christiana en Idioma Tagalog. Jose M. Cruz, ed. Quezon City: Pulong: Sources for Philippine Studies. 1995.
“The Triumphs and Failings of the Party List System: Assessing the First Votes Cast,” (monograph), Quezon City: Institute of Politics and Governance, 1998.
“Turning from the Margins: Discoursing Heidegger at the End of Life as We Know It,” Kritika Kultura 21/22 (2013/2014).
“Uprising and the Turning: Christianity and the Quest for Justice in a 19th Century Northern Luzon Uprising,” The Loyola Schools Review: Humanities Edition Vol. III, 2004.
“Voices from the Margins: Widening the Cracks in the Development Discourse,” Philippine Sociological Review (2015), Vol. 63, pp. 85-110.
Montiel, C., & Rodriguez, A. , “What happens to liberation movements after the dismantling of an authoritarian regime: The Philippine case. “, In M. Montero, Psychology of liberation: Theory and applications. NY: Springer., 2009, 155-172.
“Which People Power is People’s Power?” Karunungan, Official Journal of the Philippine Academy of Philosophical Research. Vol. 18, 2001.
Que, Nemesio and Agustin Rodriguez, eds. Pagdiriwang: Essays Celebrating Thought. Quezon City: Office or Research and Publications, Ateneo de Manila University, 1997.
Rodriguez, Agustin Martin G. and Djorina Velasco, Democracy Rising? The Triumphs and Trials of the 1998 Party-list Elections. Quezon City: Institute of Politics and Governance, 1999.
Pasco, Marc Oliver D., V. Fullente Suarez, Agustin Martin G. Rodriguez. Ethics. Quezon City: C&E Publications, Inc., 2018.
Rodriguez, Ara Marie Leal R. and Agustin Martin G. Rodriguez, Gender and Development: The Whys of Women, Their Opressions and Paths to Liberation, Quezon City: C&E Publications, Inc., 2019.