Enrique Dussel

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Enrique Dussel

Enrique Dussel in the UNAM March 2009
Born (1934-12-24) December 24, 1934
La Paz, Argentina[1]
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy

Enrique Domingo Dussel Ambrosini (born December 24, 1934) is an Argentine-Mexican writer and philosopher.

Biography

Dussel was born in Argentina, but since he was attacked with a bomb in his house by a military group in 1973, he was forced into exile in Mexico in 1975, and today he is a Mexican citizen.[2] He is a professor in the Department of Philosophy in the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Campus Iztapalapa in Mexico City and has also taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has acquired a doctorate in philosophy in the Complutense University of Madrid and a doctorate in history from the Sorbonne of Paris. He also has a license in theology from Paris and Münster. He has been awarded doctorates honoris causa from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the Higher University of San Andrés in Bolivia, and has been visiting professor for one semester at Frankfurt University, Notre Dame University, California State University, Los Angeles, Union Theological Seminary (New York), Loyola University Chicago, Vanderbilt University, Duke University, Harvard University, and others. In March 2013 he was named President of the Autonomous University of Mexico City for an extraordinary period of one year.

Dussel has maintained dialogue with philosophers such as Karl-Otto Apel, Gianni Vattimo, Jürgen Habermas, Richard Rorty and Emmanuel Lévinas [3]

He is the founder with others of the movement referred to as the Philosophy of Liberation, and his work is concentrated in the field of Ethics and Political Philosophy. Through his critical thinking he proposed a new way (a critical way) to read the universal history, criticizing the Eurocentric discourse. Author of more than 50 books, his thoughts cover many themes including: theology, politics, philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and ontology. He has been a critic of postmodernity, preferring instead the term "transmodernity."

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Notes

  1. ↑ Enrique Dussel, Un proyecto ético y político para América Latina (Anthropos Editorial, 1998), p. 37.
  2. ↑ Curriculum de Enrique Dussel
  3. ↑ Mendieta, Eduardo (1993), "Editor's Introduction" to The Underside of Modernity (online version)

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