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87Enrique Dussel, the invention of the americas: Eclipse of“the other”and the myth of modernity (review)Continental Philosophy Review 31 (4): 425-434. 1998.
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18The Identity of Liberation in Latin American Thought: Latin American Historicism and the Phenomenology of Leopoldo ZeaLexington Press/Rowman & Littlefield. 1999.Through a close examination of philosopher Leopoldo Zea's historicist phenomenology, Mario Saenz offers fresh insights into the role of Mexican intellectuals in the creation of a Latin American "philosophy of liberation". While this philosophy of liberation has been widely recognized as the most intellectual political ideology to emerge from Latin America this century, few scholars have specifically explored the Mexican roots of this intellectual movement. Saenz redresses this imbalance by placi…Read more
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178Memory, enchantment and salvation: Latin american philosophies of liberation and the religions of the oppressedPhilosophy and Social Criticism 17 (2): 149-173. 1991.
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64Living Labor in MarxRadical Philosophy Review 10 (1): 1-31. 2007.The concept of living labor in Marx’s Grundrisse represents the key notion that conceptually ties his early theory of alienation with the drafts of Capital of the 1860s. Through a critique of the formalism that opened space for Marx’s economic writings, I explore living labor, not only as alienated within the capital–laborrelation, but as an absolute, metahistorical exteriority. Furthermore, the interpretive writings of Enrique Dussel on the Grundrisse are contrasted with the reading ofMichael H…Read more
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19Leopoldo Zea: Identidad, circunstancia y liberaciónEstudios de Filosofía Práctica E Historia de Las Ideas 8 21-30. 2006.Leopoldo Zea contribuyó a un profundo replantamiento del significado de la identidad y su sentido filosófico, trabajando sobre temas que hacen al sentido del filosofar mismo, tales como: si hacer filosofía supone que quien filosofa debe abstraerse de su contexto social y cultural; si así fuera, entonces ¿cuál sería el sentido de la verdad?, específicamente de las pretensiones de verdad que tienen que ver con la cultura, la política, la crítica social e historia. ¿Qué quiere decir "identidad" en …Read more
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The Problem of the Conditioned and the Unconditioned: Philosophical Justifications of Freedom in Marx and HabermasDissertation, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. 1985.In his early works, Habermas wants to preserve both, the German idealist notion which gives primacy to self-reflection in the history of the human species, and the Marxist materialist conception that self-reflection is based on the material conditions of existence. ;Such dual preservation cannot be maintained; for the primacy given to self-reflection by German idealism is based on a prior spiritualization of the conditions of reflection. It is precisely with those alienated conditions that Haber…Read more
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9Philosophies of Liberation and Modernity: The Case of Latin AmericaPhilosophy Today 38 (2): 115-134. 1994.
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12Latin American Perspectives on Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution requires no temporalized march of progress or takeovers of state power but instead aims at local control and the material conditions for human dignity.
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Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |