ABSTRACT
This entry serves as an introduction to Mexican existentialism, or Mexistentialism for short, its history and its themes. We suggest that like European existentialism, Mexistentialism takes seriously the concreteness or facticity of situated human existence. Unlike European existentialism, Mexistentialism locates the human struggle in a geographically determined space and historically determined time, both of which affect our being human in a definite way. Mexistentialism cares about the specificity of where and when one happens to find oneself. Mexistentialism’s where is Mexico, while its when is post-colonial, and particularly, post-revolutionary Mexico. Mexistentialism is circumstantial, or situational.
