Enrique Dussel

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Enrique Dussel in March 2009

Enrique D. Dussel (born December 24, 1934 in Mendoza , Argentina ) is an Argentine philosopher , historian and theologian .

Dussel is considered to be one of the great Latin American thinkers and co-founder of the political liberation philosophy of Latin America. He has published numerous books on subjects of theology, politics and philosophy including ethics , political philosophy , aesthetics and ontology . Dussel has had philosophical dialogues with other philosophers such as Karl-Otto Apel , Gianni Vattimo , Jürgen Habermas and Richard Rorty .

Life

Enrique Dussel was born in Mendoza (Argentina) in 1934 as the great-grandson of a Schweinfurters . From 1953 to 1957 Dussel studied philosophy in Mendoza. He finished his studies with a Licenciatura : This is a degree that is customary in South America after four to six years of study and is comparable to a diploma . In 1959 Dussel received his doctorate in philosophy from the Spanish Complutense University of Madrid . From 1959 to 1961 he worked as a carpenter in Nazareth . 1961–1965 he studied theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris , which he graduated with a license (Bachelor), and in 1967 another doctorate, this time in history at the Paris Sorbonne with Robert Ricard . During this time he worked in 1964 at the Mainz Institute for European History with Joseph Lortz as a research assistant.

In 1967, Dussel returned to Argentina at a time when revolutionary movements in Latin America were trying to overcome oligarchic rule. From 1967 to 1975 Dussel taught as a professor of church history and ethics in Argentina. In Argentina, Dussel began, in constant exchange with Juan Carlos Scannone , among others , with the elaboration of his Ethics of Latin American Liberation ( Ética de la liberación latinoamericana ), which grows to five volumes. In 1975 he was driven out by the Peronists and went into exile in Mexico . In 1976 he took up a professorship for Latin American theology and church history and philosophical ethics at the philosophical faculty of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in the Iztapalapa district of Mexico City. He later taught at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (also in Mexico City) and became the coordinator of the Asociación de Filosofía y Liberación (AFYL).

In 2010 Dussel was Albertus Magnus Professor at the University of Cologne .

Philosophy and positions

Dussel sharply criticizes modernity. His philosophy of liberation, however, is not anti-modernist. Dussel does not idealize the premodern cultures of Latin America, as z. B. Alberto Acosta does. Instead of postmodernism, his alternative is "transmodernism".

Honors

Publications

  • Historia de la Iglesia en América Latina . Mundo Negro-Esquila Misional, Madrid 1971
  • Domination and liberation. Approach, stations and topics of a Latin American theology of liberation . Friborg 1985, ISBN 3-905575-11-6 .
  • Community ethics. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-77715-1 ( Library Theology of Liberation ).
  • The history of the Church in Latin America. (Translated from: Horst Goldstein) Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7867-1341-3 .
  • Philosophy of Liberation. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Penner. 3. Edition. Argument-Verlag, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-88619-374-8 .
  • Prophecy and criticism. Outline of a history of theology in Latin America. Edition Exodus, Friborg a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-905575-35-3 .
  • From the invention of America to the discovery of the other. A transmodern project. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-491-77931-6 .
  • The Ethical Sense of the 1994 Mayan Revolt in Chiapas . Latin America Center, Münster 1997 ( Workbooks of the Latin America Center. No. 38).
  • Principle of liberation. Brief outline of a critical and material ethic. Abbreviated translation of Ética de la liberación en la edad de la globalización y de la exclusión . Concordia Monographs, Volume 31. Wiss.-Verl. Mainz, Aachen 2000, ISBN 3-86073-697-3 .
  • 20 theses on politics. Lit Verlag, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12253-7 .
  • The counter-discourse of modernity. Cologne lectures . Turia + Kant, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85132-914-8 .

literature

  • Stefan Drees: Discourse and Liberation Ethics in Dialog. A case study on the sociology of the philosophers. Scientific publ. Mainz, Aachen 2002 (study on the conditions of the dialogue with Karl-Otto Apel ).
  • Andreas Lienkamp : The challenge of thinking through the cry of the poor. Enrique Dussel's draft of an ethic of liberation. In: Friedhelm Hengsbach u. a. (Ed.): Beyond Catholic social teaching. New drafts of Christian social ethics. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-491-77932-4 , pp. 191-212 ( digitized version ).
  • Peter Penner: The outside perspective of the other. A formal, pragmatic interpretation of Enrique Dussel's ethics of liberation. Argument-Verlag, Hamburg a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-88619-636-4 .
  • Peter Penner: The agreement. Outline of a phenomenological consensus theory. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau, ISBN 978-3-495-48664-1 .
  • Anton Peter: Enrique Dussel. Revelation of God in the other. Mainz 1997.
  • Hans Schelkshorn : Ethics of Liberation. Introduction to Enrique Dussel's philosophy. Freiburg im Breisgau 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enrique Dussel: The Tides of the Gospel. When the evangelized poor become evangelizers . In: Concilium , Vol. 22 (1986), pp. 382-388, here p. 385.
  2. ↑ Enrique Dussel: The History of the Church in Latin America . Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1988, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Guadalupe Estefanía Arenas Pacheco: Una aproximación al pensamiento inculturado en el itinerario intelectual de Juan Carlos Scannone . In: Revista Pelícano , ISSN  2469-0775 , Vol. 2 (2016), pp. 106–115, here p. 110.
  4. ^ A b Sophia Boddenberg: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation , Deutschlandfunk, November 12, 2017.
  5. ↑ Pierre Hattenbach: Cologne Albertus Magnus Professor 2010: Enrique Dussel ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the University of Cologne, June 7, 2010. Accessed February 7, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.portal.uni-koeln.de
personal data
SURNAME Dussel, Enrique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dussel, Enrique D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine philosopher, historian and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Mendoza (city) , Argentina