The Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor, & the Philosophy of Liberation

by Eduardo Mendieta and Enrique Dussel

Until now, North American and European philosophies have been engaged in debates about the possibility of a postmetaphysical philosophy and the consequences of the linguistic turn for the assessment of modernity; they have done so, however, without departing from the narrow horizons of their respective nationalistic perspectives. In this incisive critique, Dussel demonstrates how most of thse philosophies have either failed to give historically faithful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573923966
• ISBN13: 9781573923965
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Humanities Press Intl
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.0"