Siete ensayos de filosofía de la liberación

Siete ensayos de filosofía de la liberación
Author: Enrique Dussel
Publisher: Trotta
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8498798361

Este libro contiene siete trabajos, reflexiones, ensayos, escritos en los últimos años. En ellos se explicita la función de la filosofía de la liberación como fundamentación filosófico-metafísica y ética del giro decolonial. Desde su inicio, a finales de la década de los años sesenta del siglo pasado, la filosofía de la liberación ya había comenzado la formulación del giro decolonial, antes de su declaración epistemológica formal, mediante su crítica a la Modernidad y mostrando las vías de su superación. Enrique Dussel prosigue ahora aquellos pasos vislumbrados: desde las tres constelaciones del proceso de la política de la liberación, en el espíritu de un mesianismo escéptico, la crítica a "las muchas modernidades " o una recapitulación del diálogo entre Karl-Otto Apel y la ética de la liberación, pasando por la noción del método analéctico y un estudio del Marx del "segundo siglo" crítico del capitalismo (a partir de 1989), hasta los preliminares, en forma de siete hipótesis, de una estética de la liberación fundada en la alegría y la afirmación de la vida. "Enrique Dussel es uno de los pensadores más originales de nuestro tiempo en las diferentes disciplinas que cultiva: filosofía, teología, historia y ciencia política, una de las figuras clave de la teología y la filosofía de la liberación en América Latina y uno de los principales referentes del llamado giro decolonial. Lo viene demostrando a través de su extensa producción literaria a lo largo de seis décadas y lo confirma en esta obra, que recoge varios ensayos en los que muestra cómo la filosofía de la liberación ejerce la función filosófico-metafísica y ética del giro 'decolonial' a través de su crítica de la modernidad". (Babelia)

Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation

Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation
Author: Frederick B. Mills
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2018-08-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319945505

This book introduces the methodology and basic concepts of Dussel’s ethics of liberation. Enrique Dussel is one of the principal founders of the philosophy of liberation in Latin America. Frederick B. Mills discusses how, for Dussel, we can realize our co-responsibility for human life by responding, in accord with ethical principles, to the appeals of victims of the prevailing capital system. Mills shows how these principles, when subsumed in the political and economic fields, aim at overcoming the ongoing assault on human life and nature and provide a moral compass for forging a path to liberation. He makes the case that the study of Dussel is critical to the understanding of liberatory thought in Latin America today. This book aims to introduce the ethics of liberation to a broader audience in the Global North where Dussel's ideas are urgently relevant to progressive political and economic theory and praxis.

Decolonizing Ethics

Decolonizing Ethics
Author: Amy Allen
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2021-03-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0271090324

Enrique Dussel is Latin America’s foremost philosopher, renowned for his contributions to ethics, political philosophy, and liberation theology. Designed for classroom use, this collection of essays engages with Dussel’s encyclopedic work, making his valuable contributions accessible to English-speaking students. In addition to being one of the most original, prolific, and widely known members of the Latin American Philosophy of Liberation movement, Dussel has also made important contributions to world philosophy, the history of philosophy, the history of the Catholic Church in Latin America, and the understanding of Karl Marx. Dussel famously engaged in a decade-long debate with Karl-Otto Apel on the relationship between material and formal ethics—that is, between an ethics of the community of life and an ethics of the community of discourse—and he has produced novel interpretations and analyses of the concepts of alterity, exteriority, the other, and the world history of ethical systems. Most recently, Dussel extended his work on an ethics of liberation into a politics of liberation, developed over the course of three published volumes. In this book, scholars from around the world assess Dussel’s work in ways that are both appreciative and critical. Two essays by Dussel bookend the volume: the collection opens with a consideration of the (im)possibility of multiple modernities and ends with an autobiographical trajectory of the philosopher’s thinking. In addition to Dussel and the editors, the contributors to this volume include Linda Martín Alcoff, Don Thomas Deere, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Mario Sáenz Rovner, Alejandro A. Vallega, and Jorge Zúñiga M.

Defiant Sounds

Defiant Sounds
Author: Nelson Varas-Díaz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2023-03-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1793651868

Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. The essays position metal music at the epicenter of region-specific experiences of oppression marked by colonialism, ethnic extermination, political persecution, and war. More importantly, the authors stress how metal music is used throughout the Global South to face these oppressive experiences, foster hope, and promote an agenda that seeks to build a better world.

Imagining the Plains of Latin America

Imagining the Plains of Latin America
Author: Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2021-04-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350134317

From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent. Bringing these landscapes into focus as a major subject of Latin American culture, this book outlines innovative new ecocritcial readings of canonical literary texts from the 19th century to the present. Tracing these natural landscapes across national borders the book develops a new transnational understanding of Hispanic culture in South America and expands the scope of the contemporary environmental humanities. Texts covered include works by: Ciro Alegría, Manoel de Barros, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Rómulo Gallegos, José Eustasio Rivera, João Guimarães Rosa, and Domingo Sarmiento.

Misplaced Ideas?

Misplaced Ideas?
Author: Elías J Palti
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2024-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197774946

Is there a Latin American thought? What distinguishes it from the thought of other regions, particularly from European thought? What are its main expressions in political, cultural, and social life? How has it evolved historically? As the Mexican philosopher Leopoldo Zea Aguilar stated: "hardly any other society has so zealously sought for the features of its own identity." In Misplaced Ideas?, Elías J. Palti examines how Latin American identity has been conceived across different epochs and diverse conceptual contexts. Palti approaches these ideas from a historical-intellectual perspective, unraveling the theoretical foundations on which the very interrogation on Latin American identity has been forumulated and re-formulated. While he does not endorse or refute any particular perspective, Palti discloses the historical and contingent nature of their foundations. Ultimately, Misplaced Ideas? highlights the problematic dynamics of the circulation of ideas in peripheral regions of Western culture, which raises, in turn, broader theoretical questions regarding the ways of approaching complex historical-intellectual processes.

On Extremity

On Extremity
Author: Nelson Varas-Díaz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2023-06-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1666905216

On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living, breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us understand what we gain, or lose, when we interact with it, create it, and share it with, or force it upon, others. The volume calls for the emergence of “extremity studies” as an area of perusal to help us navigate our current global condition.

Marxism and Migration

Marxism and Migration
Author: Genevieve Ritchie
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2022-08-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030988392

This book approaches migration from Marxist feminist, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial perspectives. The present conditions of transnational migration, best described as a kind of social expulsion, include migrant caravans and detained unaccompanied children in the United States, thousands of migrant deaths at sea, the razing of self-organized refugee camps in Greece, and the massive dispersal of populations within and between countries. Placing patriarchal capitalism, imperialism, racialization, and fundamentalisms at the center of the analysis, Marxism and Migration helps build a more coherent and historically-informed discussion of the conditions of migration, resettlement, and resistance. Drawing upon a range of academic disciplines and diverse geopolitical regions, the book rethinks migrations from the vantage point of class struggle and seeks to ignite a more robust discussion of critical consciousness, racialization, militarization, and solidarity.

Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought

Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought
Author: Ofelia Schutte
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1993-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780791413180

"El libro tiene dos grandes temas: la identidad cultural, sobre la que se expresan opiniones balanceadas entre los extremos posibles, y la 'liberacion social', entendida en general como liberacion con respecto a estructuras opresivas. El itinerario de e