Introduction: Western Modernity and the Paradigm of War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. About the Series ix
4. Preface xi
5. Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Titles xvii
6. Introduction: Western Modernity and the Paradigm of War 1
7. Part I Searching for Ethics in a Violent World: A Jewi sh R esponse to the Paradigm of War
8. 1. From Liberalism to Hitlerism: Tracing the Origins of Violence and War 23
9. 2. From Fraternity to Altericity, or Reason in the Service of Love 51
10. Part II Of Masters and Slaves, or Frantz Fanon and the Ethic o-Political Struggle for Non-Sexist Human Fraternity
11. 3. God and the Other in the Self-Recognition of Imperial Man 93
12. 4. Recognition from Below: The Meaning of the Cry and the Gift of the Self in the Struggle for Recognition 122
13. Part III From the Ethical to the Geopolitical: A Latin American Response to Coloniality, Neoliberal Globalization, and War
14. 5. Enrique Dussel’s Ethics and Philosophy of Liberation 163
15. 6. Enrique Dussel’s Contribution to the De-colonial Turn: From the Critique of Modernity to Transmodernity 187
16. Conclusion: Beyond the Paradigm of War 237
17. Notes 255
18. Bibliography 313
19. Index 335