The
underside of modernity:Apel,
Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor andthe
philosophy of liberation
Enrique Dussel(translated
and edited by Eduardo Mendieta)1993Foreword Acknowledgments
Editor’s
Introduction
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1 LIBERATION PHILOSOPHY FROM THE PRAXIS OF THE OPPRESSED
1.1 Demarcation
of Liberation Philosophy: Beyond Eurocentric Developmentalism
1.2 Liberation
Philosophy and Praxis: Categories and Method 1.3 Horizons and
Debates of Liberation Philosophy 1.4 Pertinence
of Economics 1.5 Paths
Opening Up to the Future
2 THE REASON OF THE OTHER: "INTERPELLATION" AS SPEECH-ACT 2.1 Point of
Departure 2.2
Interpellation 2.3 The Reason
of the Other: Exteriority and the Community of Communication
2.4 From
Pragmatics to Economics
3 TOWARD A NORTH-SOUTH DIALOGUE3.1 State of the
Question 3.2 Toward the
Origin of the "Myth of Modernity" 3.3 Exteriority-
Totality, "Lebenswelt"-System 3.4
Communication Community and Life Community
4 FROM THE SKEPTIC TO THE CYNIC4.1 The Skeptic
and the Ultimate Grounding of Discourse Ethics 4.2 The Cynic
and the Power of Strategic Rationality as
Criticized by Liberation Philosophy 4.3 The Skeptic
as a Functionary of Cynical Reason
5 HERMENEUTICS AND LlBERATION 5.1 Following
Ricoeur’s Philosophical Project Step by Step 5.2 Toward a
Latin-American Symbolics (up to 1969) 5.3 Origins of
Liberation Philosophy ( 1969-76) 5.4 From
Hermeneutical Pragmatics to Economics 5.5 A Philosophy
of "Poverty in Times of Cholera"
6 A "CONVERSATION" WITH RICHARD RORTY6.1 Different
Original Situations 6.2 Rorty's
Philosophicar Project 6.3 Rorty's
Pragmatism and Liberation Philosophy
7 MODERNITY, EUROCENTRISM, AND TRANS-MODERNITY: IN DIALOGUE WITH
CHARLES TAYLOR7.1 The Project
of the Historical Reconstruction of Modernity 7.2 Taylor's
Ethics of the Good 7.3 Conclusions
PART TWO8 RESPONSE BY KARL-OTTO APEL: DISCOURSE ETHICS
BEFORE THE CHALLENGE OF LIBERATION PHILOSOPHY8.1 The
Prehistory of the Contemporary Discourse 8.2 The Themes
of the Dusselian Challenge 8.3 European
Perspectives on the Collapse of Marxism-Leninism 8.4
Methodological Gains of the Theory of Dependence 8.5 The
Skeptical-Pragmatic Problematization of the Grand Theories of Political Development 8.6 The
Ethically Relevant Facts of the Relationship between the First and Third World
9 RESPONSE BY PAUL RICOEUR: PH1LOSOPHY AND LIBERATION
10 RESPONSE BY ENRIQUE DUSSEL: WORLD SYSTEM, POLITICS, AND THE
ECONOMICS OF LIBERATION PHILOSOPHY 10.1 The World
System as a Philosophical Problem 10.2 The
Pretention to Globality and the Fundamental Insight into the Question of Dependence 10.3 Why Marx?
Toward a Philosophical Economics 10.4 There Is No
Economics without Politics nor Politics
without Economics Bibliography
Index
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