Available in English for the first time, this much-anticipated translation of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation marks a milestone in ethical discourse. Dussel is one of the world's foremost philosophers. This treatise, originally published in 1998, is his masterwork and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop.Throughout his career, Dussel has sought to open a space for articulating new possibilities for humanity out of, and in light of, the suffering, dignity, and creative ...
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Available in English for the first time, this much-anticipated translation of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation marks a milestone in ethical discourse. Dussel is one of the world's foremost philosophers. This treatise, originally published in 1998, is his masterwork and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop.Throughout his career, Dussel has sought to open a space for articulating new possibilities for humanity out of, and in light of, the suffering, dignity, and creative drive of those who have been excluded from Western Modernity and neoliberal rationalism. Grounded in engagement with the oppressed, his thinking has figured prominently in philosophy, political theory, and liberation movements around the world. In Ethics of Liberation, Dussel provides a comprehensive world history of ethics, demonstrating that our most fundamental moral and ethical traditions did not emerge in ancient Greece and develop through modern European and North American thought. The obscured and ignored origins of Modernity lie outside the Western tradition. Ethics of Liberation is a monumental rethinking of the history, origins, and aims of ethics. It is a critical reorientation of ethical theory.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
This book, first published in Spanish in 1994, and long awaited in English translation, is a remarkable tour de force by the most important philosopher of liberation. The book is panoramic in scope, offering an approach to ethics that starts from the materiality of what humans are (and not in a narrow physical sense), then explores the ways agreement can be reached about what is good and right before exploring the practical dimension of ethics, the 'what works' question. With these latter two areas he incorporates thinking from discourse ethics (especially Apel, Habermas) and the pragmatists. But he then introduces the critical dimension fom the standpoint of the Other, the oppresssed and/or excluded masses of humanity - for his is a perspective from the periphery of the present world system, and it is this that gives it its critical and liberatory force. Each step in the ethical journey taken so far is interrogated from that perspective of alterity, leading him to the principle of liberation in the final chapter.
While quite dense the book is very readable, and the Spanish has been rendered into an excellent translation in collaboration with the author.
In sum, this is an Ethics like no other, far more comprehensive, and moe radical, in both senses of the word.
