Against war
Subtitle: views from the underside of modernity
By: Nelson Maldonado-Torres.
Series: Latin America otherwise
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780822341468; 9780822341703
Subjects: War (Philosophy); Postcolonialism; Civilization, Modern; Postmodernism; Political science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Western modernity and the paradigm of war; title: Searching for ethics in a violent world : a Jewish response to the paradigm of war; title: From liberalism to Hitlerism : tracing the origins of violence and war; title: From fraternity to altericity, or reason in the service of love; title: Of masters and slaves, or Frantz Fanon and the ethico-political struggle for non-sexist human fraternity; title: God and the other in the self-recognition of imperial man; title: Recognition from below : the meaning of the cry and the gift of the self in the struggle for recognition; title: From the ethical to the geopolitical : a Latin American response to coloniality, neoliberal globalization, and war; title: Enrique Dussel's ethics and philosophy of liberation; title: Enrique Dussel's contribution to the de-colonial turn : from the critique of modernity to transmodernity; title: Conclusion: Beyond the paradigm of war.