The Underside of Modernity

Contents

Foreword...vii [pp.vii-xxxi]
Acknowledgments...xii
Editor’s Introduction...xiii

PART ONE [pp.1-18]

1. LIBERATION PHILOSOPHY FROM THE PRAXIS OF THE OPPRESSED...2

• 1.1 Demarcation of Liberation Philosophy: Beyond Eurocentric Developmentalism...3
• 1.2 Liberation Philosophy and Praxis: Categories and Method...5
• 1.3 Horizons and Debates of Liberation Philosophy...7
• 1.4 Pertinence of Economics...12
• 1.5 Paths Opening Up to the Future...14

2. THE REASON OF THE OTHER: "INTERPELLATION" AS SPEECH-ACT...19 [pp.19-48]

• 2.1 Point of Departure...19
• 2.2 Interpellation...21
• 2.3 The Reason of the Other: Exteriority and the Community of Communication...27
• 2.4 From Pragmatics to Economics...32

3. TOWARD A NORTH-SOUTH DIALOGUE...49 [pp.49-63]

• 3.1 State of the Question...49
• 3.2 Toward the Origin of the “Myth of Modernity”...51
• 3.3 Exteriority- Totality, “Lebenswelt”-System...53
• 3.4 Communication Community and Life Community...54

4. FROM THE SKEPTIC TO THE CYNIC...64 [pp.64-73]

• 4.1 The Skeptic and the Ultimate Grounding of Discourse Ethics...65
• 4.2 The Cynic and the Power of Strategic Rationality as Criticized by Liberation Philosophy...67
• 4.3 The Skeptic as a Functionary of Cynical Reason...70

5. HERMENEUTICS AND LlBERATION...74 [pp.74-102]

• 5.1 Following Ricoeur’s Philosophical Project Step by Step...74
• 5.2 Toward a Latin-American Symbolics (up to 1969)...77
• 5.3 Origins of Liberation Philosophy ( 1969-76)...79
• 5.4 From Hermeneutical Pragmatics to Economics...83
• 5.5 A Philosophy of "Poverty in Times of Cholera"...88

6. A “CONVERSATION” WITH RICHARD RORTY...103 [pp.103-128]

• 6.1 Different Original Situations...103
• 6.2 Rorty's Philosophicar Project...106
• 6.3 Rorty's Pragmatism and Liberation Philosophy...113

7. MODERNITY, EUROCENTRISM, AND TRANS-MODERNITY:
IN DIALOGUE WITH CHARLES TAYLOR...129 [pp.129-159]

• 7.1 The Project of the Historical Reconstruction of Modernity...129
• 7.2 Taylor's Ethics of the Good...138
• 7.3 Conclusions...147

PART TWO [pp.162-204]

8. RESPONSE BY KARL-OTTO APEL:
DISCOURSE ETHICS BEFORE THE CHALLENGE OF LIBERATION PHILOSOPHY...163

• 8.1 The Prehistory of the Contemporary Discourse...163
• 8.2 The Themes of the Dusselian Challenge...164
• 8.3 European Perspectives on the Collapse of Marxism-Leninism...167
• 8.4 Methodological Gains of the Theory of Dependence...172
• 8.5 The Skeptical-Pragmatic Problematization of the Grand Theories of Political Development...177
• 8.6 The Ethically Relevant Facts of the Relationship between the First and Third World...180

9. RESPONSE BY PAUL RICOEUR: PH1LOSOPHY AND LIBERATION...205 [pp.205-212]

10. RESPONSE BY ENRIQUE DUSSEL: WORLD SYSTEM, POLITICS,
AND THE ECONOMICS OF LIBERATION PHILOSOPHY...213 [pp.213-239]

• 10.1 The World System as a Philosophical Problem...214
• 10.2 The Pretention to Globality and the Fundamental Insight into the Question of Dependence...217
• 10.3 Why Marx? Toward a Philosophical Economics...219
• 10.4 There Is No Economics without Politics nor Politics without Economics...227

Bibliography...240 [pp.240-248]

Index...245