Beyond Philosophy: Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology / Edition 240

by Enrique Dussel, Eduardo Mendieta Pennsylvania State University

Overview

Enrique Ambrosini Dussel is and has been one of the most prolific Latin American philosophers of the last 100 years. He has written over fifty books, and over three hundred articles ranging over the history of the Latin American philosophy, political philosophy, church history, theology, ethics, and occasional pieces on the state of Latin American countries.

Dussel is first and foremost a moral philosopher, a philosopher of liberation. But for him, philosophy must be liberated so that it may contribute to social liberation. In one sense, "beyond philosophy" means to go beyond contemporary, academicized, professionalized, and "civilized" philosophy by turning to all that demystifies the autonomy of philosophy and turns our attention to its sources. "Beyond philosophy," also means to go beyond philosophy in the Marxian sense of abolishing philosophy by realizing it.

This is the definitive English language collection of Dussel's enormous body of work. It will allow the reader to get a good sense of the breath and depth of Dussel's opus, covering four major areas: ethics, economics, history, and liberation theology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847697779
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/14/2003
Series:	New Critical Theory
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Enrique Dussel is a founding member and president of the Study Community for Church History in Latin America and the Association for Philosophy and Liberation. He is the author of over 50 books, including A History of the Church in Latin America and The Invention of the Americas, and has taught at Harvard, Notre Dame, Union Theological Seminary, Vanderbilt, Loyola University, and Duke. Eduardo Mendieta is associate professor of philosophy at SUNY at Stony Brook.

Table of Contents

Part 1 I.General Hypotheses
Chapter 2 Domination-Liberation: A New Approach
Chapter 3 The Bread of the Eucharist Celebration as a Sign of Justice in the Community
Chapter 4 The "World-System": Europe as "Center" and its "Periphery" Beyond Eurocentrism
Part 5 II. Liberating Theology
Chapter 6 The Kingdom of God and the Poor
Chapter 7 'Populus Dei' in Populo Pauperum: From Vatican II to Medellín and Puebla
Chapter 8 Exodus as a Paradigm in Liberation Theology
Part 9 III.Ethics and Economics
Chapter 10 Racism: A Report on the Situation in Latin America
Chapter 11 An Ethics of Liberation: Fundamental Hypotheses
Chapter 12 Theology and Economy: The Theological Paradigm of Communicative Action and the Paradigm of the Community of Life as a Theology of Liberation
Chapter 13 Ethical Sense of the 1994 Maya Rebellion in Chiapas
Part 14 IV.History
Chapter 15 From Secularization to Secularism: Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Chapter 16 Modern Christianity in Face of the 'Other'(from The 'Rude' Indian to the 'Noble Savage'
Chapter 17 Was America Discovered or Invaded?

Editorial Reviews

Mendieta's knowledge and versatility in both European and Latin American philosophy make him the natural scholar to edit a collection of Dussel's work on the ethics of liberation. This is a signal contribution that points toward another paradigm of knowledge.

Walter D. Mignolo

This fine collection of essays is a must-read for scholars interested in thought that brings the genuinely 'critical' dimension back to the world of ideas in this unfortunate age of disciplinary decadence.

Lewis R. Gordon

Enrique Dussel's eclectic and ethical philosophy is as urgent to read as it was urgently written.

Enrique Dussel's writing offers a unique combination of ethics, postcolonial political theory, and liberation theology. For several decades his has been an important voice calling for visions of a better global future. Mendieta's translations and introduction ably amplify that voice for English reading audiences.

Mendieta's knowledge and versatility in both European and Latin American philosophy make him the natural scholar to edit a collection of Dussel's work on the ethics of liberation. This is a signal contribution that points toward another paradigm of knowledge.

This fine collection of essays is a must-read for scholars interested in thought that brings the genuinely 'critical' dimension back to the world of ideas in this unfortunate age of disciplinary decadence.

From the Publisher

This fine collection of essays is a must-read for scholars interested in thought that brings the genuinely 'critical' dimension back to the world of ideas in this unfortunate age of disciplinary decadence.

Lewis Gordon

Enrique Dussel's writing offers a unique combination of ethics, postcolonial political theory, and liberation theology. For several decades his has been an important voice calling for visions of a better global future. Mendieta's translations and introduction ably amplify that voice for English reading audiences.

Iris Marion Young

Enrique Dussel's eclectic and ethical philosophy is as urgent to read as it was urgently written.

Doris Sommer

Mendieta's knowledge and versatility in both European and Latin American philosophy make him the natural scholar to edit a collection of Dussel's work on the ethics of liberation. This is a signal contribution that points toward another paradigm of knowledge.

Walter Mignolo