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THE UNDERSIDE OF MODERNITY
APEL, RICOEUR, RORTY, TAYLOR AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIBERATION |
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Enrique Dussel, Eduardo Mendieta (Editor), Eduardo Mendieta (Trans) |
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Hardback |
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£39.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0391039326 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780391039322 |
| Publisher: |
HUMANITIES PRESS INTERNATIONAL INC.,U.S. |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Translated from: |
Spanish |
| Synopsis: |
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, without, however, ever departing from the narrow horizons of their respective nationalistic perspectives. In this critique, Enrique Durssel 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 "development 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. Dussel argues that from its inception, modernity constituted its own other side, its underside. From a global perspective, the impoverishment of the Third World cannot be separated from the wealth, squandering and pillaging of the First World.In this sense, modernity is more than an academic issue. It concerns the development of a perspective that sees the co-determination of both worlds. Central to Dussel's argument for world perspective and the development of a non-ethnocentric and Eurocentric philosophy is the rehabilitation of Marx. If we are to develop a global macroethic, he argues, we will have to develop a "philosophical economics" that allows us to understand the causes and consequences of the uneven production, appropriation and consumption of global wealth. Unless we understand the economic and geography of modernity, we will be blind to both its still-to-be-fulfilled normative goals and its global consequences. |
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bibliography, index |
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US |
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Humanities Press International Inc |
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