The Underside of Modernity – Enrique Dussel

 

The underside of modernity:

Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor and

the philosophy of liberation

Enrique Dussel

(translated and edited by Eduardo Mendieta)

1993

This book gathers some of the essays which are fruits of recent debates and

dialogues that have only just begun. The Philosophy of Liberation that I prac-

tice, not only in Latin America, but also regarding all types of oppression on

the planet (of women, the discriminated races, the exploited classes, the

marginalized poor, the impoverished countries, the old and homeless exiled

and buried in shelters and asylums, the local religions, the homeless and or-

phaned children (a lost generation) of inhospitable cities, the systems destroyed

by capital and the market… in short, the inmense majority of humanity),

begins a dialogue with the hegemonic European-North American philosophical

community. The works here presented all gravitate around one central theme:

eurocentrism and the invisibility of “economics” that in turn prevent the de-

velopment out of poverty of the greater part of humanity as a fundamental

philosophical and ethical theme.

 

The Underside of Modernity – Enrique Dussel