Philosophy of liberation
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Esta recensión, publicada en 2006, se ocupa de relevantes libros en torno a la filosofía latinoamericana de la liberación, de autores como F. Hinkelammert, E. Dussel, H. Samour, C. Beorlegui y R. Fornet-Betancourt.
This work analyzes the influence of Marxism in two theological projects of liberation: Liberation theology. Perspectives (1971) by Gustavo Gutiérrez and The ideological weapons of death (1977) by Franz Hinkelammert. The work is divided... more
Latin America is experiencing a new era of the myth of development based on a model of extractivism. The most dramatic face of extractivism in the region has been, on the one hand, the growing presence of transnational mining corporations... more
It is mischievous for Rafael Winkler to reduce an argument that has its basis in the critical examination of history of over 100 years to a mere squabble.
Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation in the Age of Globalization and Exclusion brings together the diversity of traditions and problems on which he has worked throughout his career. The presence of his engagement with Emmanuel Levinas... more
Timeless awareness is the essence of Dzogchen. Time experienced within timeless awareness is also an expression of the essence of Dzogchen. Dzogchen is an ancient form of Tibetan mystic humanism. Dzogchen makes the essential distinction... more
Although 1994 is popularly represented as a year of major transition from an oppressive society to a democratic one in South African history, it did not mark the end of White Supremacy but instead its evolution from one constitutional... more
Desde sus comienzos, la Filosofía de la Liberación ha tenido como objetivo la construcción de un conocimiento crítico a partir de la situación de América Latina. Sin embargo, los esfuerzos por fundamentar epistemológicamente y... more
Jorge Zúñiga (coord.). Ponentes: Eduardo Mendieta, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Yamandú Acosta, Amy Allen, Linda Alcoff, Adriana Arpini, Mauricio Beuchot, Santiago Castro-Gómez , Carlos Pereda, Jorge Armando Reyes, Ambrosio Velasco, Haydeé... more
Roland Corbisier foi um filósofo e político brasileiro. O intelectual do ISEB publica neste livro conferências intituiladas "introdução aos problemas do Brasil" e "Filosofia no Brasil". CORBISIER, R. Formação e problema da cultura... more
Enrique Dussel rethinks the concept of reason in relation to his project of liberation as a global dialogue between different geopolitical positions in opposition to the isolated task of an uprooted Cartesian thinker freed from... more
Leftists have often received the ethical phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas with suspicion, on the grounds that it seems to lack a political appreciation of exploitation. While Levinas’s thought includes strong considerations of cultural... more
Which conceptions of solidarity will help subjugated, oppressed groups pose liberatory challenges to the regimes under which they suffer? Activists and scholars concerned with liberation err by constraining solidarity to the parameters... more
This essay explores the extent to which comparative philosophy can assist decolonial struggle. In order to accomplish this task, I offer not only a description of philosophy's colonization but also an account of how this discipline... more
" It is hard to overestimate the value of this volume for anyone approaching Habermas's thought. Allen and Mendieta have gathered an outstanding group of contributors, and the choice of concepts and topics is superb. No other living... more
Nietzsche ist mit dem 1887 erschienenen V. Buch der Fröhlichen Wissenschaft sein reifstes Aphorismen-Werk gelungen. Es handelt von der Heiterkeit der Zwischenzeit, in der die Befreiung des Geistes von Jahrtausende alten Vorurteilen... more
In this paper I consider a problem that has plagued various versions of the philosophy of liberation. 1 On the one hand, proponents of the philosophy of liberation generally counsel that various forms of liberation in at least the... more
This essay develops on the aesthetic dimensions of decolonial thought in the work of Rodolfo Kusch and Enrique Dussel, who both point us to non-objectifying modes of thinking and being. Beyond a strictly epistemological approach,... more
With Gianni Vattimo's late collaborative works with Santiago Zabala, Vat-timo is proving to be not only a philosopher of emancipatory hermeneutics but also one who is making his own distinct contribution to liberation philosophy. This... more
It is one thing to consider what human rights have been and another to inquire into what they could be. In this essay, I present a history of human rights vis-à-vis decolonization. I follow the scholarship of Samuel Moyn to suggest that... more
This is a book entitled "Philosophy of Liberation" by an Argentine philosopher, Enrique Dussel, in which the author calls all the philosophers of the Global South (including The Third World philosophers) for liberating their regional... more
Which conceptions of solidarity will help subjugated, oppressed groups pose liberatory challenges to the regimes under which they suffer? Activists and scholars concerned with liberation err by constraining solidarity to the parameters... more
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This essay offers an account of the philosophical significance of liberation and prescribes the special place the idea of liberation ought to hold in the context of inter-American philosophical dialogue. Drawing from Latin American... more
In Twenty Theses on Politics, Argentine-Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel compares the concept of people with two Indigenous terms: The Aztec altepetl and the Mayan Amaq’. Both concepts mean ‘community’ or ‘people,’ and ‘us/we.’ However,... more
La filosofía de la liberación de Enrique Dussel ha propuesto a la analéctica como su método de reflexión filosófica. Sin embargo, a la hora de pensar una epistemología para las ciencias sociales críticas (consistente con esta filosofía)... more
A biographical introduction to the philosophical work of Enrique Dussel, a major figure of the decolonial turn. Separate from his theology, Dussel’s philosophy of liberation offers crucial reflections for contemporary political theology.
This is a commentary on “The Liberatory Event of Paul Tarsus” by Enrique Dussel (2009), a part of the third volume of Dussel’s Politics of Liberation. The article’s author seeks to show how Dussel reads Paul in a dialectical way, in what... more
Life and the will to live are at the foundation of both the ethics and the politics of liberation, with life understood as the vital source and measure of all human institutions, values, and norms. Indeed, the central theme of Enrique... more
Linda Alcoff interviews Lewis Gordon on Africana philosophy in Africana Studies, relationships between Africana Studies and Latin American Studies, existential phenomenology, relational theories of race, invisibility and anonymity, and a... more
Drawing upon the theory of disciplinary decadence and what it means to transcend it through a teleological suspension of disciplinarity, this article explores Enrique Dussel's conceptions of ethics, history, modernity, and philosophy... more
The theme of this master thesis is the interpretation of the agrarian property, from constitutionalized legal grounds, based on the Philosophy of Liberation hermeneutic proposal developed by the philosopher Enrique Dussel and on the... more
Resumo: Las Casas é um personagem mais famoso do que conhecido. Com exceção da Brevíssima relación de la destrucción de las Índias, que teve uma imensa repercussão desde sua época até os nosso dias, suas prin-cipais obras permaneceram... more