The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation: Fusing Emancipatory Philosophic Thought and Social Revolt

by Eugene Gogol

Book Overview

In this exciting new study, Eugene Gogol interweaves three strands that form the intellectual bedrock for the concept of the Other in the Latin American context: Hegel's dialectic of negativity, Marx's humanism, and autochthonal emancipatory thought. From this foundation, the book explores the relation of liberatory philosophic thought to today's social and class movements. Gogol considers the logic of capitalism on Latin American soil, the ecological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739103318
• ISBN13: 9780739103319
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"