Against war: views from the underside of modernity

Introduction: Western modernity and the paradigm of war -- Searching for ethics in a violent world : a Jewish response to the paradigm of war -- From liberalism to Hitlerism : tracing the origins of violence and war -- From fraternity to altericity, or reason in the service of love -- Of masters and...

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Main Author: Maldonado Torres, Nelson (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Durham Duke University Press 2008
In:Year: 2008
Reviews:Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (2009) (English, Adam C.)
Series/Journal:Latin America otherwise
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995 / Political ethics / War / Violence
B Fanon, Frantz 1925-1961 / Colonialism
B Dussel, Enrique 1934-2023 / Philosophy of liberation
Further subjects:B Postmodernism
B War (Philosophy)
B Political science ; Philosophy
B Political Science Philosophy
B Postcolonialism
B Civilization, Modern
B Electronic books
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Introduction: Western modernity and the paradigm of war -- Searching for ethics in a violent world : a Jewish response to the paradigm of war -- From liberalism to Hitlerism : tracing the origins of violence and war -- From fraternity to altericity, or reason in the service of love -- Of masters and slaves, or Frantz Fanon and the ethico-political struggle for non-sexist human fraternity -- God and the other in the self-recognition of imperial man -- Recognition from below : the meaning of the cry and the gift of the self in the struggle for recognition -- From the ethical to the geopolitical : a Latin American response to coloniality, neoliberal globalization, and war -- Enrique Dussel's ethics and philosophy of liberation -- Enrique Dussel's contribution to the de-colonial turn : from the critique of modernity to transmodernity -- Conclusion: Beyond the paradigm of war.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-333) and index
ISBN:0822388995
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1215/9780822388999