Abstract

In this essay I examine whether the concept of pueblo elaborated by Dussel in his philosophy of liberation is capable of situating the interstitial space between a subjectivist agency and a posthuman process of production. I hope to show that the concept of pueblo helps us decolonize the concept of people. Nevertheless, it reproduces essentialism through an opaque concept of the Other; on the one hand, in its Levinasian reading, it reduces subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and social relations to the egotism of a closed off totality; on the other hand, the critique of the totality is done from outside the totality by an alterity immune to self-criticism.

Presenters

Mario Saenz
Professor, Philosophy, Le Moyne College, New York, United States

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Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Society and Culture

KEYWORDS

Exteriority, Pueblo, Dussel, Levinas

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