José L. López González

Assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the Universitat Jaume I (Spain).

PhD in Moral Philosophy (Cum laude) with the international doctoral thesis «Ethics and Kinetics of Tourism. Contributions based on Hartmut Rosa’s Resonance Critical Theory» (Universitat Jaume I). Extraordinary Doctorate Award.

His research in ethics focuses on social acceleration and tourism.

Relevant Publications 

• López-González, José L. (2025). Resonance in Hartmut Rosa’s Critical Theory: A Response to Practical Limits of Discourse Ethics for Accelerated Societies. Daimon. Revista Internacional de Filosofía. [ISSN: 1989–4651].
• López-González, J. L. (2024). The right to the city versus the right to tourism in teleological perspective: an ethical conflict between goods. Current Issues in Tourism [ISSN: 1368-3500]
• López-González, J. L. (2024). Neurotechnologies applied to tourism: from the epistemic contribution to the ethical risk. International Journal of Ethics and System [ISSN: 2514-9369].
• López-González, J. L. (2023). The resonance approach for non-alienated relationships: beyond slowness in higher education. Ethics and Education, 19 (1), 1-17. [ISSN: 1744-9642]
• López-González, J. L. (2023). Job Touristification: Bases for the Critique of a Social Acceleration Phenomenon Manifested in Bleisure and Workation. Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales, 41(2), 335-348. [ISSN: 1131-8635]
• López-González, José L. (2023). Hartmut Rosa’s Critical Theory of Resonance versus Acceleration: Beyond Paternalism and Totalitarianism? Disputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin, 12 (24), [ISSN: 2254-0601]
• López-González, José L. y Fennel, David (2021). Social acceleration as a new frontier for the ethics of tourism Recerca, Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 26 (1), pp. 1–7.
• López-González, José L. y Medina-Vicent, Maria (2020). Las Kellys y el turismo: de la invisibilidad del cuidado a la visibilidad política. Digithum, (25), pp.1–13.
• López-González, José L. (2018). Del código ético a la convención internacional. Un panorama crítico de la Organización Mundial del Turismo desde la perspectiva del cosmopolitismo. Oxímora. Revista Internacional de Ética y Política, 12, pp. 205-223, [ISSN: 2014-7708].
• López-González, José L. (2018). Ethics and Tourism: In dialogue with Dean MacCannell. Recerca. Revista de pensament i anàlisi, 23, pp. 239-248, [ISSN: 1130-6149]
• López-González, José L. (2018). Exploring discourse ethics for tourism transformation. Tourism: An International Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 68, nº. 3, pp. 269-281, [ISSN: 1332-7461]

Contact details:

José L. López-González

jose.lopez@uji.es