Maldonado Torres, Nelson. <br/><br/>
Against war :  views from the underside of modernity / 
Nelson M aldonado-Torres. 
 - Durham :  Duke University Press,   2008. 
 - xvi, 342 p. ;   24 cm. 
 - Latin America otherwise .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-333) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822341703 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007-039436 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>War (Philosophy)<br/>Postcolonialism.<br/>Civilization, Modern.<br/>Postmodernism.<br/>Political science-- Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>172.42