Capitalism, Colonialism, and the War on Human Life

Abstract Dussel's complex work calls into question the standard history of philosophy, reveals a counter-history at work beneath the official history that gives voice to the victims of capitalism and colonialism, and systematically develops a novel 'material ethics' grounded in an unq...

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Published inHistorical materialism : research in critical Marxist theory Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 253 - 268
Main Author Noonan, Jeff
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Leiden | Boston Brill 01.03.2019
Brill Academic Publishers, Inc
Subjects
Capitalism
Center and periphery
Colonialism
Ethics
Marxism
Philosophy
Political economy
Values
Victims
Western society
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Summary:Abstract Dussel's complex work calls into question the standard history of philosophy, reveals a counter-history at work beneath the official history that gives voice to the victims of capitalism and colonialism, and systematically develops a novel 'material ethics' grounded in an unqualified, universal affirmation of life as the foundation of liberatory values. The Ethics of Liberation brings together the major problems explored in Dussel's prolific body of earlier work: the relationship between Western philosophy and the expansion of European society; the relationship between centre and periphery in global political economy, considered as both a philosophical and an ethical problem; the ethical interpretation of Marxism; the politics of liberation in the colonial context; the defence of universal foundations of ethical norms; and the (all-important) distinction between formal and critical ethics.
ISSN:1465-4466
1569-206X
DOI:10.1163/1569206X-00001518