Humberto Beck

Humberto Beckis a Mexican historian, essayist and editor, and a professor at the Center of International Studies at El Colegio de México, in Mexico City. His main interests are intellectual history and global current affairs, on which he has written essays for The New York Times, Dissent, America’s Quarterly, New Perspectives Quarterly, and El País. His latest book publications include an analysis of the thought of historian and social critic Ivan Illich (Otra modernidad es posible: el pensamiento de Iván Illich, 2017), the co-edition of a collective volume on policy proposals for Mexico (El futuro es hoy: ideas radicales para México, 2018), and an intellectual history of the concepts of instantaneous temporality, rupture and crisis (The Moment of Rupture: Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought, 2019). He is currently working on an intellectual history of Latin American ideas, as well as on a history of the notion of limits in twentieth-century social and political European thought.