Emmanuel Levinas, Enrique Dussel, and La Escuelita Zapatista
Subtitle: Responding to the Ethics of Alterity
By: Ana Cecilia Galindo Diego
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2022
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.?]
Language: eng
Description: The focus of my dissertation is the ‘problem of the Other.’ The central question is: how does one relate to the other without immediately taking away their alterity? If the Other is an absolute other, how can we relate in a way that is respectful and ethical? There are many examples of relationships among people that demonstrate ways that are ethical and ways that are not. I will be analyzing modernity/coloniality to understand in which ways this historical epoch demonstrated a lack of understanding of the Latin American Other. Afterward, I will offer a glimpse into the world of the Zapatistas and an educational experiment they called La Escuelita Zapatista. By undertaking close readings of Zapatista narratives, I hope to offer the reader an opportunity to identify the ethicality (or what I will call ‘ethicity’) of the Zapatistas’ pedagogy.
Notes: Department: Philosophy and Education.

Thesis advisor: David Hansen.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2022.