Against war : views from the underside of modernity /

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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Maldonado Torres, Nelson (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Latin America otherwise.
Subjects:
Dussel, Enrique.
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
Fanon, Frantz.
War (Philosophy)
Postcolonialism.
Civilization, Modern.
Postmodernism.
Political science > Philosophy.
Guerre (Philosophie)
Postcolonialisme.
Postmodernisme.
postcolonialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Liberation.
Civilization, Modern
Political science > Philosophy
Postcolonialism
Postmodernism
Kolonialismus
Philosophie der Befreiung
Gewalt
Politische Ethik
Krieg
Krieg.
Kolonialismus.
Zivilisation.
Ethik.
Geopolitik.
Politische Philosophie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Western modernity and the paradigm of war
  • Searching for ethics in a violent world : a Jewish response to the paradigm of war
  • From liberalism to Hitlerism : tracing the origins of violence and war
  • From fraternity to altericity, or reason in the service of love
  • Of masters and slaves, or Frantz Fanon and the ethico-political struggle for non-sexist human fraternity
  • God and the other in the self-recognition of imperial man
  • Recognition from below : the meaning of the cry and the gift of the self in the struggle for recognition
  • From the ethical to the geopolitical : a Latin American response to coloniality, neoliberal globalization, and war
  • Enrique Dussel's ethics and philosophy of liberation
  • Enrique Dussel's contribution to the de-colonial turn : from the critique of modernity to transmodernity
  • Conclusion: Beyond the paradigm of war.

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