by Enrique Dussel
edited by Alejandro A. Vallega
translated by Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Eduardo Mendieta, Yolanda Angulo and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo
Duke University Press, 2012
Paper: 978-0-8223-5212-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8223-9521-8 | Cloth: 978-0-8223-5201-3
Library of Congress Classification BT83.57.D8713 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 170

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Available in English for the first time, this much-anticipated translation of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation marks a milestone in ethical discourse. Dussel is one of the world's foremost philosophers. This treatise, originally published in 1998, is his masterwork and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop.

Throughout his career, Dussel has sought to open a space for articulating new possibilities for humanity out of, and in light of, the suffering, dignity, and creative drive of those who have been excluded from Western Modernity and neoliberal rationalism. Grounded in engagement with the oppressed, his thinking has figured prominently in philosophy, political theory, and liberation movements around the world.

In Ethics of Liberation, Dussel provides a comprehensive world history of ethics, demonstrating that our most fundamental moral and ethical traditions did not emerge in ancient Greece and develop through modern European and North American thought. The obscured and ignored origins of Modernity lie outside the Western tradition. Ethics of Liberation is a monumental rethinking of the history, origins, and aims of ethics. It is a critical reorientation of ethical theory.


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