Enrique Dussel

Una aproximación a su pensamiento

Abstract

This essay attempts to look into the thinking of one of the most important intellectuals in Latin America, given Enrique Dussel’s ability to interpret the social and cultural reality from the second half of the Twentieth Century to the beginning of the Twenty-First. It undertakes outlining the profile of an intellectual of the highest academic stature who was a product of the political and ideological struggle during the 1960 decade in Argentina and Mexico; because his ever ascending trajectory and regard to anything associated with his theoretical creation. The paper centers on the Dusselian theory about the “ethics of liberation” from its emergence to its current state as it is translated into the context of the “politics of liberation”. The method will be reconstructive and based on the ascending process of the work, as it will delve into the “philosophy of liberation”, ethics and politics, in order to understand Dussel’s contribution to the social movements of the region. Finally, I will attempt to synthetize the construction of a Latin American theory of liberation, approached as an ethical exercise within the context of the political struggles of marginal groups in Latin America and the groups that decidedly participated in these struggles.