Overview

A challenge to conventional theories of globalization, from thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics and social science. 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. They propose models of transcultural and intercultural relations that replace centre/periphery or world-systems approaches, thus removing the need for a central reference point. They also focus on the constructive questions of building toward dialogic relationships based on equality and epistemic co-operation rather than subsumption to a universalized paradigm. The work ultimately suggests a reconstruction of the world in terms of the interests of one of the peripheral regions of the world, arguing with cogency and urgency that none within contemporary globalization debates can afford to ignore the Latin American philosophical tradition.

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Author:   Mario Sáenz ,  Linda Martín Alcoff ,  Debra A. Castillo ,  Santiago Castro-Gómez
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9780742507777

ISBN 10:   0742507777
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   23 October 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Periphery at the Core Part 2 The New Conditions of Inequality Chapter 3 No Longer Broad but Still Alien Is the World: The End of Modernity and the Transformation of Culture in the Times of Globalization Chapter 4 The Ethics of Globalization and the Golobalization of Ethics Chapter 5 Transnationalization, the State, and Political Power Part 6 Rethinking Identity Chapter 7 Globalization and the Borders of Latinity Chapter 8 Going Home: Tununa Mercado's En estado de memoria Chapter 9 Globalization, Philosophy, and Latin America Part 10 Alternative Visions of Globalization Chapter 11 Humanity and Globalization Chapter 12 A Global Democratic Order: A Normative Proposal Chapter 13 Latin American Feminism and the New Challenges of Globalization Part 14 Projects of Liberation and Social Transformation Chapter 15 Feminism and Globalization Processes in Latin America Chapter 16 Latin American Liberation Theology, Globalization, and Historical Projects: From Critique to Construction Chapter 17 An Alternative to Globalization: Theses for the Development of an Intercultural Philosophy

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Mario Sáenz is professor of philosophy and director of the Integral Honors Program at Le Moyne College. He is the author of The Identity of Liberation and Latin American Thought: Latin American Historicism and the Phenomenology of Leopoldo Zea (Lexington Books, 1999).

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