Against War - Views From the Underside of Modernity

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext An analysis of Western attitudes toward war from a subaltern perspective that brings new insights into Western philosophical paradigms. Zusammenfassung Argues that European modernity has become inextricably linked with the experience of the warrior and conqueror. This title develops a powerful critique of modernity! and offers a critical response combining ethics! political theory! and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish thought. 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

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• Authors: Nelson Maldonado Torres, Maldonado-Torres, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Nelson Maldonado-Torres
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2008
• EAN: 9780822341468
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4146-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Soziale und politische Philosophie, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy