Against war : views from the underside of modernity / Nelson Maldonado-Torres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maldonado Torres, Nelson.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Latin America otherwise.

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War (Philosophy).

Postcolonialism.

Civilization, Modern.

Postmodernism.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An analysis of Western attitudes toward war from a subaltern perspective that brings new insights into Western philosophical paradigms.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786613109149

9781283109147

128310914X

9780822388999

0822388995

OCLC:

654841349