Against war : views from the underside of modernity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maldonado Torres, Nelson
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:	Latin America otherwise.
Subjects:	War (Philosophy) Postcolonialism. Civilization, Modern. Postmodernism. Political science > Philosophy.

Table of 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.