Maldonado-Torres / Mignolo / Silverblatt Against War

Views from the Underside of Modernity
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8899-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America Otherwise

An analysis of Western attitudes toward war from a subaltern perspective that brings new insights into Western philosophical paradigms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maldonado-Torres, Nelson

Mignolo, Walter D.

Silverblatt, Irene

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Befreiungstheologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the series ix

Preface xi

Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Titles xvii

Introduction: Western Modernity and the Paradigm of War 1

Part I. Searching for Ethics in a Violent World: A Jewish Response to the Paradigm of War

1. From Liberalism to Hitlerism: Tracing the Origins of Violence and War 23

2. From Fraternity to Altericity, or Reason in the Service of Love 51

Part II. Of Masters and Slaves, or Frantz Fanon and the Ethico-Political Struggle for Non-sexist Human Fraternity

3. God and the Other in the Self-Recognition of Imperial Man 93

4. Recognition from Below: The Meaning of the Cry and the Gift of the Self in the Struggle for Recognition 122

Part III. From the Ethical to the Geopolitical: A Latin American Response to Coloniality, Neoliberal Globalization, and War

5. Enrique Dussel's Ethics and the Philosophy of Liberation 163

6. Enrique Dussel's Contribution to the De-colonial Turn: From the Critique of Modernity to Transmodernity 187

Conclusion: Beyond the Paradigm of War 237

Notes 255

Bibliography 313

Index 335

Über Autor(innen)

Nelson Maldonado-Torres is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a coeditor of Latin@s in the World-System: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire.