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,
The aim of New Critical Theory is to broaden the scope of critical theory beyond its two predominant strains, one generated by the research program of Jurgen Habermas and his students, the other by postmodern cultural studies. The series will reinvigorate early critical theory-as developed by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, and others-but from more decisive postcolonial and post patriarchal vantage points. New Critical Theory represents theoretical and activist concerns about class, gender, and race, seeking to learn from as well as nourish new social liberation movements.
Series Editors: Patricia Huntington and Martin J. Beck Matustik