Beyond Philosophy Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology

by Dussel, Enrique; Mendieta, Eduardo

• ISBN13: 9780847697779
• ISBN10: 0847697770
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-14
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Enrique Ambrosini Dussel is and has been one of the most prolific Latin American philosophers of the last 100 years. This is the definitive English language collection of Dussel's enormous body of work in ethics, economics, history, and liberation theology.

Author Biography

Enrique Dussel is a founding member and president of the Study Community for Church History in Latin America and the Association for Philosophy and Liberation Eduardo Mendieta is associate professor of philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Preface
Enrique Dussel	ix
Introduction
Eduardo Mendieta	1	(20)
Part I: General Hypotheses
1 Domination-Liberation: A New Approach	21	(20)
2 The Bread of the Eucharist Celebration as a Sign of Justice in the Community	41	(12)
3 The "World-System": Europe as "Center" and Its "Periphery" beyond Eurocentrism	53	(32)
Part II: Liberating Theology
4 The Kingdom of God and the Poor	85	(18)
5 "Populus Dei" in Populo Pauperum: From Vatican II to Medellin and Puebla	103	(12)
6 Exodus as a Paradigm in Liberation Theology	115	(12)
Part III: Ethics and Economics
7 Racism: A Report on the Situation in Latin America	127	(8)
8 An Ethics of Liberation: Fundamental Hypotheses	135	(14)
9 Theology and Economy: The Theological Paradigm of Communicative Action and the Paradigm of the Community of Life as a Theology of Liberation	149	(18)
10 Ethical Sense of the 1994 Maya Rebellion in Chiapas	167	(20)
Part IV: History
11 From Secularization to Secularism: Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment	187	(20)
12 Modern Christianity in Face of the "Other" (from the "Rude" Indian to the "Noble Savage")	207	(12)
13 Was America Discovered or Invaded?	219	(8)
Index	227	(4)
About the Author	231	(2)
About the Editor	233