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Enrique Dussel
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Contents
1 Biography
2 Select bibliography
3 See also
4 Notes
5 External links
Biography
Dussel was born in Argentina, but since he was attacked Enrique Dussel in the UNAM March 2009
with a bomb in his house by a military group in 1973, he Born December 24, 1934
was forced into exile in Mexico in 1975, and today he is a La Paz, Argentina[1]
[2]
Mexican citizen. He is a professor in the Department of
Philosophy in the Metropolitan Autonomous University Era 20th-century philosophy
(UAM), Campus Iztapalapa in Mexico City and has also Region Western philosophy
taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM). He has acquired a doctorate in philosophy in the Complutense University of Madrid and a
doctorate in history from the Sorbonne of Paris. He also has a license in theology from Paris and Mnster.
He has been awarded doctorates honoris causa from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the
Higher University of San Andrs in Bolivia, and has been visiting professor for one semester at Frankfurt
University, Notre Dame University, California State University, Los Angeles, Union Theological Seminary
(New York), Loyola University Chicago, Vanderbilt University, Duke University, Harvard University, and
others. In March 2013 he was named President of the Autonomous University of Mexico City for an
extraordinary period of one year.
Dussel has maintained dialogue with philosophers such as Karl-Otto Apel, Gianni Vattimo, Jrgen
Habermas, Richard Rorty and Emmanuel Lvinas [3]
He is the founder with others of the movement referred to as the Philosophy of Liberation, and his work is
concentrated in the field of Ethics and Political Philosophy. Through his critical thinking he proposed a new
way (a critical way) to read the universal history, criticizing the Eurocentric discourse. Author of more than
50 books, his thoughts cover many themes including: theology, politics, philosophy, ethics, political
philosophy, aesthetics, and ontology. He has been a critic of postmodernity, preferring instead the term
"transmodernity."
Select bibliography
Ethics of Liberation: In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion, Duke University Press, Durham,
2013.
Politics of Liberation (Reclaiming Liberation Theology), SCM Press, Manila, Philippines, 2011.
tica de la liberacin ante Apel, Taylor y Vattimo con respuesta crtica inedita de K.-O. Apel, 1998.
Hacia una filosofa poltica crtica, 2001.
tica del discurso y tica de la liberacin (con Karl-Otto Apel), 2005.
20 tesis de poltica, 2006.
Filosofa de la cultura y la liberacin, 2006.
Poltica de la liberacin. Historia mundial y crtica, 2007.
Materiales para una poltica de la liberacin, 2007.
Frigrelsesfilosofi, Forlaget Politisk Revy, Kbenhavn, 2008.
Poltica de la liberacin: Arquitectnica, 2009.
See also
Theology of liberation
Socialism
Marxism
Notes
1. Enrique Dussel, Un proyecto tico y poltico para Amrica Latina (Anthropos Editorial, 1998), p. 37.
2. Curriculum de Enrique Dussel (http://www.afyl.org/curriculum-dussel.pdf)
3. Mendieta, Eduardo (1993), "Editor's Introduction" (http://168.96.200.17/ar/libros/dussel/apelin/fore.pdf) to The
Underside of Modernity (http://168.96.200.17/ar/libros/dussel/apelin/apelin.html) (online version)
External links
Web Page (http://www.enriquedussel.com/Home_en.html) Complete Work and references about
author.
Article on Enrique Dussel from Spanish Wikipedia
Philosophy of Liberation (http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/libros/dussel/filolibin/filolibin.html),
link to complete text online
The Underside of Modernity (http://168.96.200.17/ar/libros/dussel/apelin/apelin.html), link to
complete text online
The Invention of the Americas (http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/libros/dussel/1492in
/1492in.html), link to complete text online