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9780822343455

Twenty Theses On Politics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822343455

  • ISBN10:

    0822343452

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-11-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

""Twenty Theses on Politics" is a groundbreaking manifesto charting new terrain toward de-colonial political philosophy and political theory. It is based on the experience and interpretation of current events in Latin America. There is nothing comparable."--Walter D. Mignolo, author of "The Idea of Latin America"

Author Biography

Enrique Dussel teaches philosophy at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, and at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City.

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Liberation of Politics: Alterity, Solidarity, Liberation
Preliminary Words
Introduction
Corruption and the Political Field: The Public and the Private
The Prevailing Political Order
The Political Power of the Community as Potentia
Institutional Power as Potestas
Obediential Power
The Fetishization of Power: Power as Domination
Strategic Political Action
The Need for Political Institutions: The Material Sphere (Ecological, Economic, Cultural): Fraternity
Institutions in the Spheres of Democratic Legitimacy and Feasibility: Equality and Liberty: Governability
Ethics and the Implicit Normative Principles of Politics: The Material Principle
The Formal-Democratic and Feasibility Principles of Politics
The Critical Transformation of the Political: Toward the New Political Order
The People: The Popular Sector and "Populism"
Liberatory Power as Hyperpotentia and the "State of Rebellion"
The Political Principles of Liberation: The Critical Material Principle
The Critical-Democratic and Strategic Transformation Principles
Liberation Praxis of Social and Political Movements
Anti-Hegemonic Praxis and the Construction of a New Hegemony
Transformation of Political Institutions: Reform, Transformation, Revolution: Political Postulates
Transformation of Institutions in the Material Sphere: "Perpetual Life" and Solidarity
Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Democratic Legitimacy: Irruption of New Rights: "Perpetual Peace" and Alterity
Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Feasibility: The "Dissolution of the State"? Liberation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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