Twenty Theses on Politics

Name: Twenty Theses on Politics
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ISBN: 9780822343288

ISBN-10: 0822343282

ISBN-13: 9780822343288

Edition: 2008

Authors: Enriquï¿½ Dussel, Geo Maher, Enriquï¿½ Dussel, Geo Maher

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First published in Spanish in 2006,Twenty Theses on Politicsis a major statement on political philosophy from Enrique Dussel, one of Latin America's-and the world's-most important philosophers and a founder of the philosophy of liberation. Synthesizing a half-century of his pioneering work in moral and political philosophy, Dussel presents a succinct rationale for the development of political alternatives to the exclusionary, exploitative institutions of neoliberal globalization. In twenty short, provocative theses he lays out the foundational elements for a politics of just and sustainable co-existence. Dussel first constructs a theory of political power and its institutionalization,…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/9/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.12" wide x 8.50" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.550



Foreword: The Liberation of Politics: Alterity, Solidarity, Liberation



Preliminary Words


Introduction



Corruption and the Political Field: The Public and the Private



The Prevailing Political Order



The Political Power of the Community as Potentia



Institutional Power as Potestas



Obediential Power



The Fetishization of Power: Power as Domination



Strategic Political Action



The Need for Political Institutions: The Material Sphere (Ecological, Economic, Cultural): Fraternity



Institutions in the Spheres of Democratic Legitimacy and Feasibility: Equality and Liberty: Governability



Ethics and the Implicit Normative Principles of Politics: The Material Principle



The Formal-Democratic and Feasibility Principles of Politics



The Critical Transformation of the Political: Toward the New Political Order



The People: The Popular Sector and "Populism"



Liberatory Power as Hyperpotentia and the "State of Rebellion"



The Political Principles of Liberation: The Critical Material Principle



The Critical-Democratic and Strategic Transformation Principles



Liberation Praxis of Social and Political Movements



Anti-Hegemonic Praxis and the Construction of a New Hegemony



Transformation of Political Institutions: Reform, Transformation, Revolution: Political Postulates



Transformation of Institutions in the Material Sphere: "Perpetual Life" and Solidarity



Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Democratic Legitimacy: Irruption of New Rights: "Perpetual Peace" and Alterity



Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Feasibility: The "Dissolution of the State"? Liberation


Notes


Bibliography


Index