Beyond Philosophy: Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology - Paperback

by Enrique Dussel (Author), Eduardo Mendieta (Editor)

Enrique Ambrosini Dussel is and has been one of the most prolific Latin American philosophers of the last 100 years. He has written over fifty books, and over three hundred articles ranging over the history of the Latin American philosophy, political philosophy, church history, theology, ethics, and occasional pieces on the state of Latin American countries. Dussel is first and foremost a moral philosopher, a philosopher of liberation. But for him, philosophy must be liberated so that it may contribute to social liberation. In one sense, 'beyond philosophy' means to go beyond contemporary, academicized, professionalized, and 'civilized' philosophy by turning to all that demystifies the autonomy of philosophy and turns our attention to its sources. 'Beyond philosophy, ' also means to go beyond philosophy in the Marxian sense of abolishing philosophy by realizing it. This is the definitive English language collection of Dussel's enormous body of work. It will allow the reader to get a good sense of the breath and depth of Dussel's opus, covering four major areas: 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. He is the author of over 50 books, including A History of the Church in Latin America and The Invention of the Americas, and has taught at Harvard, Notre Dame, Union Theological Seminary, Vanderbilt, Loyola University, and Duke. Eduardo Mendieta is associate professor of philosophy at SUNY at Stony Brook.