Enrique Dussel
OriginArgentina/Mexico
Era1934
SchoolLatin American Philosophy
About Enrique Dussel
A founder of liberation philosophy. Dates modernity from 1492 and centers the conquest of the Americas. Argued that European thought built itself on what it conquered. Forged a transmodern ethics against the center and its margins. Exiled from Argentina, he built his career in Mexico City. Engaged Levinas, Marx, and liberation theology across dozens of books.