Dussel Twenty Theses on Politics

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8944-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 180 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America in Translation

Translation of a theoretical manifesto by one of Latin America’s leading political philosophers, interpreting the new wave of radicalism in Latin American politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dussel, Enrique

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mendieta, Eduardo

Maher, Geo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: The Liberation of Politics: Alterity, Solidarity, Liberation / Eduardo Mendieta vii

Preliminary Words xv

Introduction 1

Thesis 1. Corruption and the Political Field: The Public and the Private 3

Part One: The Prevailing Political Order

Thesis 2. The Political Power of the Community as Potentia 13

Thesis 3. Institutional Power as Potestas 18

Thesis 4. Obediential Power 24

Thesis 5. The Fetishization of Power: Power as Domination 30

Thesis 6. Strategic Political Action 36

Thesis 7. The Need for Political Institutions: The Material Sphere (Ecological, Economic, Cultural): Fraternity 43

Thesis 8. Institutions in the Spheres of Democratic Legitimacy and Feasibility: Equality and Liberty: Governability 50

Thesis 9. Ethics and the Implicit Normative Principles of Politics: The Material Principle 56

Thesis 10. The Formal-Democratic and Feasibility Principles of Politics 62

Part Two: The Critical Transformation of the Political: Toward the New Political Order

Thesis 11. The People: The Popular Sector and "Populism" 71

Thesis 12. Liberatory Power as Hyperpotentia and the "State of Rebellion" 78

Thesis 13. The Political Principles of Liberation: The Critical Material Principle 83

Thesis 14. The Critical-Democratic and Strategic Transformation Principles 88

Thesis 15. Liberation Praxis of Social and Political Movements 94

Thesis 16. Anti-Hegemonic Praxis and the Construction of a New Hegemony 103

Thesis 17. Transformation of Political Institutions: Reform, Transformation, Revolution: Political Postulates 108

Thesis 18. Transformation of Institutions in the Material Sphere: "Perpetual Life" and Solidarity 114

Thesis 19. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Democratic Legitimacy: Irruption of New Rights: "Perpetual Peace" and Alterity 122

Thesis 20. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Feasibility: The "Dissolution of the State"? Liberation 131

Notes 139

Bibliography 151

Index 155

Über Autor(innen)

Enrique Dussel (1934–2023) was Professor of Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the Iztapalapa campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. He also teaches courses at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Dussel is the author of more than fifty books, including Beyond Philosophy: Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology; The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of the “Other” and the Myth of Modernity; and Philosophy of Liberation. He is a co-editor of Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate, also published by Duke University Press.
George Ciccariello-Maher is an abolitionist educator, organizer, and writer based in Philadelphia Berkeley. Eduardo Mendieta is Professor of Philosophy and Latina/o at Pennsylvania State University. His many books include Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory and Thinking from the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation (co-edited with Linda Martín Alcoff).