The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation Fusing Emancipatory Philosophic Thought and Social Revolt

by Gogol, Eugene

• ISBN13: 9780739103302
• ISBN10: 073910330X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-19
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In this exciting new study, Eugene Gogol interweaves three strands that form the intellectual bedrock for the concept of the Other in the Latin American context: Hegel's dialectic of negativity, Marx's humanism, and autochthonal emancipatory thought. From this foundation, the book explores the relation of liberatory philosophic thought to today's social and class movements. Gogol considers the logic of capitalism on Latin American soil, the ecological crisis in Latin America, and the concept and practice of self-liberation. Still one of the most contested terrains of Latin American thought, the Other has been of central concern for many luminary thinkers including Leopoldo Zea, Octavio Paz, and José Carlos Mariátegui. While these writers may not garner much publicity in the world press, the highly public and ongoing struggles of the Zapatistas and Brazil's Landless Workers Movement demonstrate the continuing need to theorize the volatile nature of Latin American social reality.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Philosophic Foundations of the Other
A Liberating, Negating Power of Other in the Hegelian Dialectic	p. 13
Latin American Philosophic Thought: Philophies of Identity, History, and Liberation in Relation to the Hegelian Dialectic	p. 51
The Inseparability of Marx's Hegelianism and Humanism	p. 89
Jose Carlos Mariategui: Striving to Re-Create Marxism for Peru's Latin American Tierra - A Brief Overview	p. 99
Theology of Liberation's Incomplete Thought-Dive into Marx's Humanism	p. 109
Imprisonment of the Other: The Logic of Capitalism on Latin American Soil
Economic Realities: Latin America's Veins Are Still Open - Capitalism's Present-Day Behemoth of Neoliberalism	p. 123
Theoretic Foundations: Marx's 'Economics' as Humanism and Philosophy	p. 133
Latin American Economic Theories	p. 149
The Theory of State-Capitalism and Latin America	p. 183
Notes on Nature in Latin America in Relation to a Concept of Nature in Marx	p. 195
Self-Liberation of the Other: Revolutionary Subjectivity in Latin America
Comprehending the Zapatistas: Uniting the Force of Ideas with the Force of Arms	p. 213
Indigenous Struggles - Dimensions of Ethnicity, Class, and Gender; the Relation of Culture and Resistance	p. 241
The Coalescence of Class Struggles and Social Movements: Voices from the Other Mexico	p. 279
Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo: Raising a Banner of Freedom in Argentina	p. 295
Learning to Participate: The Experience of the MST in Brazil	p. 307
Opening a Dialogue: Latin America's Revolutionary Subjectivity and the Thought of Marx	p. 329
The Revolutionary Other: In Organization; in Philosophy
Organization and Philosophy: Two Kinds of Revolutionary Subjectivity; Two Kinds of Revolutionary Organization	p. 341
Selected Bibliography	p. 369
Index	p. 377
About the Author	p. 385
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