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Philosophy of liberation


  • Here are entered works on the Latin American philosophical movement that combines an emphasis on Latin American intellectual independence with Catholic and Marxist ideas.
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    • Liberation philosophy
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    • found: Work cat: 2016393644: Herrera Salazar, G. Vida humana, muerte y sobrevivencia : la ética material en la obra de Enrique Dussel, 2015:t.p. ([cataloger's translation] Human life, death and survival : material ethics in the work of Enrique Dussel) p. 48 ([cataloger's translation] philosophy of liberation)
    • found: Cambridge dictionary of philosophy, 1999, via WWW, June 10, 2016:under Latin American philosophy (the philosophy of liberation is an autochthonous Latin American movement that mixes an emphasis on Latin American intellectual independence with Catholic and Marxist ideas)
    • found: Historical companion to postcolonial literatures, 2008, via WWW, June 10, 2016:under Postcoloniality and alternative histories: Latin America (attempts were made to elaborate ideas through which the colonial legacies of epistemological and economic dependency could be overcome; in the 1970s, a 'philosophy of liberation' (Enrique Dussel) and a 'sociology of liberation' (Orlando Fals-Borda) emerged as part of these efforts)
    • found: Iannone, A.P. Dictionary of world philosophy, 2001, via WWW, June 10, 2016(philosophy of liberation: a Latin American philosophical movement influenced by the theology of liberation movement)
    • found: Internet encyclopedia of philosophy, viewed June 10, 2016:under Latin American philosophy (after the 1960s, philosophy as a professional academic discipline was well established in Latin America, but it only began to achieve substantial international visibility in the 1970s with the rise of a new generation that developed the philosophy of liberation; the most famous members of this fifth twentieth century generation are from Argentina and include Arturo Andrés Roig (1922-2012), Enrique Dussel (1934- ), and Horacio Cerutti Guldberg (1950- ))
    • found: Oxford companion to philosophy, 2005, via WWW, June 10, 2016:under Latin American philosophy (the philosophy of liberation, which began in Argentina in the 1970s and combines an emphasis on Latin American intellectual independence with Catholic and Marxist ideas)
    • found: Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, via WWW, June 10, 2016:under Latin America, philosophy in (one of the best known and most interesting contributions of modern Latin American intellectual life is liberation philosophy; the philosophical movement originated in Argentina, although many of its practitioners reside in other Latin American countries; philosophy of liberation attempts to explain philosophically the theoretical underpinnings of social and political phenomena, such as dependency, and reinforces theology of liberation)
    • found: Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, 2015, via WWW, June 10, 2016(Philosophy of Liberation is the collective name for a philosophical movement and method of doing philosophy that emerged at first in Argentina during the late sixties, but that went on to spread throughout Latin American [sic] during the early seventies; the philosophy of liberation is the distinct manifestation of Latin American philosophy that has received the most international attention, and that has had the most influence both within Latin America and the United States; while the philosophy of liberation is deeply rooted in the history and debates of Latin American philosophy, to the extent that it may be claimed that it is the most elaborate and substantive response to the task [of] articulating a distinct Latin American philosophy, it is nonetheless also a chapter within the broader history of European philosophy)
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    • Here are entered works on the Latin American philosophical movement that combines an emphasis on Latin American intellectual independence with Catholic and Marxist ideas.
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    • 2016-06-10: new
    • 2016-08-11: revised
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