Thinking from the Underside of History

Download or read book Thinking from the Underside of History written by Linda Martín Alcoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-07-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enrique Dussel's writings span the theology of liberation, critiques of discourse ethics, evaluations of Marx, Levinas, Habermas, and others, but most importantly, the development of a philosophy written from the underside of Eurocentric modernist teleologies, an ethics of the impoverished, and the articulation of a unique Latin American theoretical perspective. This anthology of original articles by U.S. philosophers elucidating Dussel's thought, offers critical analyses from a variety of perspectives, including feminist ones. Also included is an essay by Dussel that responds to these essays.