TY - BOOK ID - 67154682 TI - Against war : views from the underside of modernity. PY - 2008 SN - 9780822341468 0822341468 9780822341703 0822341700 0822388995 128310914X 9786613109149 PB - Durham Duke university press. DB - UniCat KW - War (Philosophy) KW - Postcolonialism KW - Civilization, Modern KW - Postmodernism KW - Political science KW - Philosophy KW - #SBIB:17H22 KW - #SBIB:327.4H21 KW - #SBIB:39A4 KW - War KW - Post-modernism KW - Postmodernism (Philosophy) KW - Arts, Modern KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Post-postmodernism KW - Post-colonialism KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Decolonization KW - Political philosophy KW - Modern civilization KW - Modernity KW - Civilization KW - Renaissance KW - Sociale wijsbegeerte: samenleving KW - Kolonisatie / dekolonisatie / post-kolonisatie KW - Toegepaste antropologie KW - History KW - Political science - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67154682 AB - Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish thought. Maldonado-Torres focuses on the perspectives of those who inhabit the underside of western modernity, particularly Jewish, black, and Latin American theorists. He analyzes the works of the Jewish Lithuanian-French philosopher and religious thinker Emmanuel Levinas, the Martiniquean psychiatrist and political thinker Frantz Fanon, and the Catholic Argentinean-Mexican philosopher, historian, and theologian Enrique Dussel.Considering Levinas’s critique of French liberalism and Nazi racial politics, and the links between them, Maldonado-Torres identifies a “master morality” of dominion and control at the heart of western modernity. This master morality constitutes the center of a warring paradigm that inspires and legitimizes racial policies, imperial projects, and wars of invasion. Maldonado-Torres refines the description of modernity’s war paradigm and the Levinasian critique through Fanon’s phenomenology of the colonized and racial self and the politics of decolonization, which he reinterprets in light of the Levinasian conception of ethics. Drawing on Dussel’s genealogy of the modern imperial and warring self, Maldonado-Torres theorizes race as the naturalization of war’s death ethic. He offers decolonial ethics and politics as an antidote to modernity’s master morality and the paradigm of war ER -