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Politics of Liberation - A Critical Global History (Paperback)
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'If Enrique Dussel had been born in the United States, France or
Germany he would be an intellectual celebrity. Author of dozens of
books in Spanish, few have been translated into English. This book
seeks to begin to remedy this injustice.' Ivan Petrella, Associate
Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Miami
Politics of Liberation presents a world political history, a
partial and initial attempt at describing the history of political
actors, the 'people', and their philosophical inspirations. It is a
decolonizing of political history to begin to tell the accurate
world story. In order to explore a politics of liberation a true
world political history has to be told and understood. The
frameworks to be overcome include: 1. Helenocentrism, which
neglects the non-Greek and non-Roman influences on Greece and Rome;
2. Westernization, which neglects the Byzantine world among others
in terms of political development; 3. Eurocentrism, which neglects
or denigrates the world outside of Europe when describing political
history; 4. the periodization of political history according to
European standards; 5. the falsely assumed secularization of
politics; 6. the colonizing of Latin American and other peripheral
political philosophies; and 7. the exclusion of Spain/Portugal and
Latin America from modernity. This is not simply one alternative
reading, but it is a counter-narrative, describing the world's
tradition of politics. It examines what has been said and what has
not even been investigated. The starting point is the suffering of
the people. Enrique Dussel is Professor in the Department of
Philosophy at the Iztapalapa campus of the Universidad Autonoma
Metropolitana (Autonomous Metropolitan University, UAM) and also
teaches courses at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
(National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM). He has an
undergraduate degree in Philosophy (from the Universidad Nacional
de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina), a Doctorate from the Universidad
Complutense of Madrid, a Doctorate in History from the Sorbonne in
Paris. He is the founder with others of the movement referred to as
the Philosophy of Liberation, and his work is concentrated in the
field of Ethics and Political Philosophy. Thia Cooper is Assistant
Professor in the Religion Department of Gustavus Adolphus College
in Saint Peter, MN and author of Controversies in Political
Theology: Development or Liberation (SCM Press, 2007).
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