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Philosophy of Liberation:

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Argentinean philosopher, theologian, and historian Enrique Dussel understands the present international order as divided into the culture of the center — by which he means the ruling elite of Europe, North The usa, and Russia — and the peoples of the periphery — by which he means the populations of Latin The usa, Africa, and a part of Asia, and the oppressed classes (including women and children) during the world. In ‘Philosophy of Liberation,’ he presents a profound analysis of the alienation of peripheral peoples resulting from the imperialism of the center for more than five centuries. Dussel’s aim is to demonstrate that the center’s historic cultural, military, and economic domination of poor countries is ‘philosophically’ founded on North Atlantic onthology. By expressing supposedly universal knowledge, European philosophies, argues Dussel, have served to equate the cultural standards, modes of behavior, and rationalistic orientation of the West with human nature and to condemn the unique characteristics of peripheral peoples as nonbeing, nothing, chaos, irrationality. Hence, Western philosophies have historically legitimated and hidden the domination that oppressed cultures have suffered by the hands of the center. Dussel probes multinational corporations, the communications media, and the armies of the center with their counterparts a few of the Third World elite. The creation of a just world order someday, according to Dussel, hinges on the liberation of the periphery, based on a philosophy that is in a position to think the world from the perspective of the poor and to reclaim the Third World’s distinct cultural inheritance, which is imbedded in the preferred cultures of the poor. Except for the liberation of the periphery, there will be no future: the center will feed itself on the sameness it has ingrained within itself. The death of the child, of the poor, will be its own death. It is a disquieting but stimulating book for scholars and advanced students of philosophy, ethics, liberation theology, and global politics.

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