 Since the return to civilian rule in 1990, the field of philosophy has confronted numerous challenges, such as new national priorities (human rights, economic growth, constitutional reforms, erosion of institutional legitimacy), the fragmentation of the field due to the proliferation of new private universities, and an unsuccessful attempt by the National Council of Education to remove philosophy from the secondary school curriculum (2018). At the same time, philosophy has flourished in other respects, thanks to the continued production of the previous generation (Roberto Torretti, Carla Cordua, Renato Cristi and Marcos García de la Huerta) or the posthumous publications of Jorge Millas, Juan Rivano and Humberto Giannini. Until his death in 2017 Jorge Eduardo Rivera (born 1927) remained as the most important specialist on Heidegger. Pablo Oyarzún (1950) has made significant contributions to aesthetics and literary criticism, Recently, Andrés Claro (1968) has emerged as a powerful new philosophical voice, concerned with the poetical dimensions of language, in such works as Las vasijas quebradas (2012), and Tiempos sin fin (2018). A new trend has emerged on the examination of the philosophical bases of modern economics, best exemplified in Leonidas Montes’ (1966) Adam Smith en contexto (2017).