Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-333) and index.

Introduction: Western modernity and the paradigm of war -- Searching for ethics in a violent world : a Jewish response to the paradigm of w ar -- From liberalism to Hitlerism : tracing the origins of violence an d war -- From fraternity to altericity, or reason in the service of lov e -- Of masters and slaves, or Frantz Fanon and the ethico-political st ruggle for non-sexist human fraternity -- God and the other in the self -recognition of imperial man -- Recognition from below : the meaning of the cry and the gift of the self in the struggle for recognition -- Fr om the ethical to the geopolitical : a Latin American response to colon iality, neoliberal globalization, and war -- Enrique Dussel's ethics an d philosophy of liberation -- Enrique Dussel's contribution to the de-c olonial turn : from the critique of modernity to transmodernity -- Conc lusion: Beyond the paradigm of war.