Against war : views from the underside of modernity / Nelson Maldonado-Torres.
| Author/creator |
Maldonado Torres, Nelson |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. |
| Description | xvi, 342 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Latin America otherwise Latin America otherwise. ^A386991 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-333) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007039436 |
| ISBN | 9780822341468 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822341468 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822341703 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822341700 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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