Barber, Michael D., 1949-

Ethical hermeneutics : rationality in Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of liberation / by Michael Barber. - New York : Fordham University Press, 1998. - xxiii, 184 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-174) and index.

Emmanuel Levinas's Phenomenology and the Allegiance to Reason -- The Critique of Theory: The Horizons of Theory -- The Phenomenology of the Other and the Struggle to Be Rational -- Phenomenology and Rationality in Levinas -- Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation: Discovery and Integration of Lavinas's Thought -- Levinas and Dussel's Anthropological Works -- Levinas and Dussel's Reading of Hegel -- Levinas and the Ethics of Latin American Liberation -- Overcoming Levinas: Analectical Method Beyond Levinas: Latin American Mediations and the Analogical Word of the Other -- Analectical Method and the Unmasking of False Universalism -- Analectical Method, Ethical Hermeneutics, and the Positive Assessment of Reason -- Ethical Hermeneutics: History, Economics, and Theology -- History -- Economics (Marx) -- Religion/Theology -- Rationality in Dussel: The American Critics -- Cerutti and Schutte on Dussel -- Assessing the Criticism -- Rationality in Dussel: The Critique of Karl-Otto Apel -- Karl-Otto Apel's Transcedental Pragmatics -- Can Transcendental Pragmatics Replace the Philosophy of Liberation? -- Is Dussel's Reappropriation of Marx Anachronistic? -- Conclusions

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Dussel, Enrique D.--Ethics.
Lévinas, Emmanuel.


Ethics--Latin America.
Ethics, Modern--20th century.
Social ethics.
Hermeneutics.
Reason.
Liberation theology.

BJ 414 .D873 / B37 1998

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