Twenty Theses on Politics

Translator's Preface: The Liberation of Politics: Alterity, Solidarity, Liberation; Preliminary words; IntroductionThesis 1. Corruption and the political field. The public and the privateFirst part: The prevailing political orderThesis 2. The political power of the community as potential; Thesis 3. Institutional power as potestas; Thesis 4. Obediential power; Thesis 5. The fetishization of power: power as domination; Thesis 6. Strategic political action; Thesis 7. The need for political institutions. The material sphere (ecological, economic, cultural). Fraternity; Thesis 8. Institutions in the spheres of democratic legitimacy and feasibility. Equality and liberty. Governability; Thesis 9. Ethics and the implicit normative principles of politics. The material principle; Thesis 10. The formal-democratic and feasibility principles of politicsSecond part: The critical transformation of the political: toward the new political orderThesis 11. The people. The popular sector and "populism"; Thesis 12. Liberatory power as hyperpotentia and the "state of rebellion"; Thesis 13. The political principles of liberation. The critical material principle; Thesis 14. The critical-democratic and strategic transformation principles; Thesis 15. Liberation praxis of social and political movements; Thesis 16. Anti-hegemonic praxis and the construction of a new hegemony; Thesis 17. Transformation of political institutions. Reform, transformation, revolution. Political postulates; Thesis 18. Transformation of institutions in the material sphere. "Perpetual life" and Solidarity; Thesis 19. Transformation of institutions in the sphere of democratic legitimacy. Irruption of new rights. "Perpetual peace" and Alterity; Thesis 20. Transformation of institutions in the sphere of feasibility. The "dissolution of the State"? LiberationBibliography; Index

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"Twenty Theses on Politics is a groundbreaking manifesto charting new terrain toward de-colonial political philosophy and political theory. It is based on the experience and interpretation of current events in Latin America. There is nothing comparable." Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Idea of Latin America "Enrique Dussel is one of the giants of emancipatory thought and liberation philosophy. This grand text is a concise expression of his subtle analysis and courageous vision!"--Cornel West, Princeton University