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Against war views from the underside of modernity /

Maldonado Torres, Nelson.

Against war views from the underside of modernity / [electronic resource] Nelson Maldonado-Torres. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. - xvi, 342 p. - Latin America otherwise . - e-Duke books scholarly collection. Latin America otherwise. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-333) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.




War (Philosophy)
Postcolonialism.
Civilization, Modern.
Postmodernism.
Political science--Philosophy.


Electronic books.

B105.W3 / M35 2008

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