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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824221803321

Autore

Maldonado Torres Nelson

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-283-10914-X

9786613109149

0-8223-8899-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Collana

Latin America otherwise

Disciplina

172/.42

172.42

Soggetti

War (Philosophy)

Postcolonialism

Civilization, Modern

Postmodernism

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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