SPECIAL ISSUE ENRIQUE DUSSEL: DECOLONIAL READINGS WITH THE PHILOSOPHER OF LIBERATION
Journal Diálogos from the History Graduate Programme of Maringá University State UEM - PPH (Maringá-PR, Brazil), calls for papers to the monographic Dossier entitled: Enrique Dussel: decolonial readings with the philosopher of liberation, organized by Milagros Elena Rodríguez, Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela.
Enrique Domingo Dussel Ambrosini was born in the province of Mendoza, Argentina on 24 December 1934, graduated in philosophy at the National University of Cuyo. He died in Mexico City on 5 November 2023; his gift as an educator made him stand out as an academic, philosopher, historian and theologian, among other educational activities and praxis.
The father of the philosophy of liberation Enrique Dussel, this full of an ethics of liberation was forged since 1973, until it reached its peak in 1998 with the publication of his magnificent work: Ethics of liberation, a voice that continues in his writings, with his example that is why the voice and thought of Enrique Dussel resonate strongly and continue in the struggle for dignity and liberation, were some of the words of Senator Gloria Sánchez Hernández of Morena on 3 November 2023, who led the speech in the Mexican Senate in homage to the philosopher of liberation.
This dossier aims to bring together articles that address the legacy of Don Enrique Dussel and his actions as a human being. The answer to the question: What is it to be Dusselian? In order to think about transmodernity, what are the implications of the prefix trans, beyond in the philosopher of liberation? ‘This beyond (trans) indicates the starting point from the exteriority of modernity, from what modernity excluded, denied, ignored as insignificant, meaningless, barbaric, non-cultural, opaque, unknown otherness; evaluated as savage, uncivilized, underdeveloped, inferior, mere oriental despotism, Asian mode of production, etc. Various names given to the non-human, to the irretrievable, to that which is without history, to that which will become extinct in the face of the overwhelming advance of the globalizing western ‘civilization’ (DUSSEL, 2004, p.222).
We agree with the Dulsenian legacy to become aware that re-linking is an emerging practice of transmodern philosophical thought (RODRÍGUEZ, 2019); thought and action that, being planetary decolonial, unlinks itself from the old unviable practice in which it is impossible to be transmodern from another scenario that is not the exteriority of modernity -postmodernity - coloniality; without colonial remnants that privilege oppressive projects that currently swarm the planet.
Proposals must be linked to the axes that make up the thematic call for papers in homage to the philosopher of liberation, focusing on the following:• Trans-methodologies for the study of transmodernity, in order to safeguard the exteriority of modernity-postmodernity-decoloniality.
• Research that unveils incises for the necessary dialogue between cultures.
• Philosophy of liberation and epistemological decolonization.
• Epistemes in favour of life on the planet, recalling that the ‘self-valorization, of one's own cultural moments denied or simply despised that are found in the exteriority of Modernity (...) those traditional values ignored by Modernity must be the starting point of an internal critique (DUSSEL, 2014, p. 293).
• Decolonial epistemes in favour of transmodern emergencies, such as subversive art as liberation.
• Studies on colonialism and the concealment of the pasts of covert civilizations.
• Studies in trans-theology, recapturing the words of the philosopher of liberation on the need for a ‘trans-theology beyond the theology of Latin-Germanic, Eurocentric and metropolitan Christianity, which ignored the colonial world, and especially colonial Christendom (DUSSEL, 2017, p. 300).
• Critical revisions of the politics of liberation.
• Reparative practices and politics of aesthetics in the production of Enrique Dussel.
• The philosophical discourse of transmodernity.
• Latin American philosophy in the face of the new false compromises of decoloniality in states of the global south.
• Community ethics as an urgency in the popular and the public.
Full papers submission in the Dossier section: Enrique Dussel: decolonial readings with the philosopher of liberation.
Submission period: August 1st to October 30th, 2024 (deadline)
Editing and publication: first quarter of 2025.
CONSIDERATIONS
Papers should be submitted in the dossier section. Guidelines for authors and rules for submission and publication can be found on the journal's online page, which can be accessed via the links below. We invite you to read the rules in detail and to use the template.
http://www.dialogosuem.com.br/
http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/Dialogos/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
References
DUSSEL, E. (2004). Sistema-mundo y Transmodernidad. En: BANERJEE-DUBE, Ishita y MIGNOLO, Walter (org.) Modernidades coloniales: otros pasados, historias presentes. Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, p. 201-226. DUSSEL, E. (2014). 16 tesis de economía política: Interpretación filosófica. Ciudad de México: Siglo XXI
DUSSEL, E. (2017). Filosofías del sur. Descolonización y transmodernidad. Ciudad de México: Akal.
RODRÍGUEZ, M. E. (2019). Re-ligar como práctica emergente del pensamiento filosófico transmoderno. Revista Orinoco Pensamiento y Praxis, 7(11), 13-35.
