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The underside of modernity : Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor, and the philosophy of liberation / Enrique Dussel ; translated and edited by Eduardo Mendieta.
- Title
- The underside of modernity : Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor, and the philosophy of liberation / Enrique Dussel ; translated and edited by Eduardo Mendieta.
- Author
- Dussel, Enrique D.
- Publication
- Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press, 1996.
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- Mendieta, Eduardo
- Description
- xxxi, 248 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Until now, North American and European philosophies have been engaged in debates about the possibility of a postmetaphysical philosophy and the consequences of the linguistic turn for the assessment of modernity; they have done so, however, without departing from the narrow horizons of their respective nationalistic perspectives. In this incisive critique, Dussel demonstrates how most of these philosophies have either failed to give historically faithful analyses of the genesis of the "myth" of modernity, or have never engaged in a serious questioning of their own Eurocentric presuppositions. He shows how North American and European philosophers have presupposed a no-longer-acceptable philosophy of history that has led them to fall into a "developmental fallacy," the belief that there is a linear sequence that moves from the premodern, underdeveloped, or on the way to industrialization, to the modern, developed, and industrialized.
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-244) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Liberation Philosophy from the Praxis of the Oppressed -- 2. The Reason of the Other: "Interpellation" as Speech-Act -- 3. Toward a North-South Dialogue -- 4. From the Skeptic to the Cynic -- 5. Hermeneutics and Liberation -- 6. A "Conversation" with Richard Rorty -- 7. Modernity, Eurocentrism, and Trans-Modernity: In Dialogue with Charles Taylor -- 8. Response by Karl-Otto Apel: Disclosure Ethics Before the Challenge of Liberation Philosophy -- 9. Response by Paul Ricoeur: Philosophy and Liberation -- 10. Response by Enrique Dussel: World System, Politics, and the Economics of Liberation Philosophy
- ISBN
- 0391039326 (cloth)
- LCCN
- ^^^95032838^
- OCLC
- 32820774
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library