| Region: | Western philosophy |
| Era: | Contemporary philosophy |
| Alberto Buela | |
| Birth Date: | 1946 |
| Birth Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Alma Mater: | University of Buenos Aires (1972) Paris-Sorbonne University (MA, 1981; PhD, 1984)[1] |
| School Tradition: | Continental philosophy |
| Main Interests: | Ethics, history, metapolitics, nationalism, ontology, peronism, philosophy of politics, philosophy of religion, theory |
| Notable Ideas: | Metapolitics |
Alberto Buela Lamas (born 1946) is an Argentine philosopher. Buela is professor at the National Technological University and the University of Barcelona and works as a researcher in the University of Barcelona.[2] He is best known for his philosophical works on metapolitics, Aristotle and Peronism.[3]
Alberto Buela was highly influenced by Latin American philosophers such as Gilberto Freyre, Saúl Taborda, and Julio Ycaza Tigerino. He also has listed as an influence the phenomenological work of Max Scheler, the existentialism of Martin Heidegger, Hegel, Aristotle (his main influence), and Carl Schmitt's practical theories.
His work has been based on phenomenology as a method and using the concepts exposed by Heidegger in his works.
Buela is an author of numerous books and articles about metapolitics, ontology, political philosophy, among other topics.[4]
Buela appeared as a special guest in a program by TLV1- Toda la verdad primero (a web series about conspiracy theories hosted by Juan Manuel Soaje Pinto) to debate history and politics.[5]