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Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor, & the Philosophy of Liberation

Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor, & the Philosophy of Liberation

Dussel, Enrique
Mendieta, Eduardo

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 1573923966
ISBN13: 9781573923965
Publisher: Humanities Press Intl
Published: Sep 4 1998
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Until now, North American and European philosophies have been engaged in debates about the possibility of a postmetaphysical philosophy and the consequences of the linguistic turn for the assessment of modernity; they have done so, however, without departing from the narrow horizons of their respective nationalistic perspectives. In this incisive critique, Dussel demonstrates how most of thse philosophies have either failed to give historically faithful analyses of the genesis of the myth of modernity, or have never engaged in a serious questioning of their own Eurocentric presuppositions. He shows how North American and European philosophers have presupposed a no-longer-acceptable philosophy of history that has led them to fall into a developmental fallacy, the belief that there is a linear sequence that moves from the premodern, underdeveloped, or on the way to industrialization, to the modern, developed, and industrialized.

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