Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (Latin America Otherwise)
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2008
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- Title
- Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (Latin America Otherwise)
- Author
- Maldonado-Torres, Nelson
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822341700
- ISBN 13
- 9780822341703
- Series
- Book 41 of 58: Latin America Otherwise
Considering Levinas’s critique of French liberalism and Nazi racial politics, and the links between them, Maldonado-Torres identifies a “master morality” of dominion and control at the heart of western modernity. This master morality constitutes the center of a warring paradigm that inspires and legitimizes racial policies, imperial projects, and wars of invasion. Maldonado-Torres refines the description of modernity’s war paradigm and the Levinasian critique through Fanon’s phenomenology of the colonized and racial self and the politics of decolonization, which he reinterprets in light of the Levinasian conception of ethics. Drawing on Dussel’s genealogy of the modern imperial and warring self, Maldonado-Torres theorizes race as the naturalization of war’s death ethic. He offers decolonial ethics and politics as an antidote to modernity’s master morality and the paradigm of war. Against War advances the de-colonial turn, showing how theory and ethics cannot be conceived without politics, and how they all need to be oriented by the imperative of decolonization in the modern/colonial and postmodern world.
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Nelson Maldonado-Torres is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a coeditor of Latin@s in the World-System: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire.
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