Twenty theses on politics / Enrique Dussel ; translated by George Ciccariello-Maher ; foreword by Eduardo Mendieta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dussel, Enrique D.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao.

Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao

Standardized Title:

20 tesis de política. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Latin America--Politics and government.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translation of a theoretical manifesto by one of Latin America's leading political philosophers, interpreting the new wave of radicalism in Latin American politics.

Contents:

Thesis 1. Corruption and the Political Field: the public and the private

Thesis 2. The Political Power of the Community as Potentia

Thesis 3. Institutional Power as Potestas

Thesis 4. Obediential Power

Thesis 5. The Fetishization of Power: Power as Domination

Thesis 6. Strategic Political Action

Thesis 7. The Need for Political Institutions: The Material Sphere (Ecological, Economic, Cultural): Fraternity

Thesis 8. Institutions in the Spheres of Democratic Legitimacy and Feasibility: Equality and Liberty: Governability

Thesis 9. Ethics and the Implicit Normative Principles of Politics: The Material Principle

Thesis 10. The Formal-Democratic and Feasibility Principles of Politics

Thesis 11. The People: The Popular Sector and "Populism"

Thesis 12. Liberatory Power as Hyperpotentia and the "State of Rebellion"

Thesis 13. The Political Principles of Liberation: The Critical Material Principle

Thesis 14. The Critical-Democratic and Strategic Transformation Principles

Thesis 15. Liberation Praxis of Social and Political Movements

Thesis 16. Anti-Hegemonic Praxis and the Construction of a New Hegemony

Thesis 17. Transformation of Political Institutions: Reform, Transformation, Revolution: Political Postulates

Thesis 18. Transformation of Institutions in the Material Sphere: "Perpetual Life" and Solidarity

Thesis 19. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Democratic Legitimacy: Irruption of New Rights: "Perpetual Peace" and Alterity

Thesis 20. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Feasibility: The "Dissolution of the State"? Liberation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-153) and index.

ISBN:

9786613022936

9781283022934

1283022931

9780822389446

0822389444

OCLC:

768077389