Beyond Philosophy Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology
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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.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, William H Wannamaker Professor and Director, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University,
Enrique Dussel's eclectic and ethical philosophy is as urgent to read as it was urgently written.
- Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and director of Graduate Studies in Spanish at Harvard,
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, Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut,
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, professor of political science at the University of Chicago,
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, professor of political science at the University of Chicago,