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Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.

In "The Frankfurt School on Religion, " Eduardo Mendieta has brought together a collection of readings and essays revealing both the deep connections that the Frankfurt School has always maintained with religion as well as the significant contribution that its work has to offer. Rather than being unanimously antagonistic towards religion as has been the received wisdom, this collection shows the great diversity of responses that individual thi...

In "The Frankfurt School on Religion, Eduardo Mendieta has brought together a collection of readings and essays revealing both the deep connections that the Frankfurt School has always maintained with religion as well as the significant contribution that its work has to offer. Rather than being unanimously antagonistic towards religion as has been the received wisdom, this collection shows the great diversity of responses that individual think...

Philosophical explorations of the processes of globalization, particularly in the context of Latin America.

Reprises foundational issues for identity, power, and justice in the context of what humans take as the known world, especially the social world, and what others impose on them as knowledge of that world in order to serve the interests of a dominating minority over the life chances of the majority.

In The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy, critical theory scholar Eduardo Mendieta examines the philosophical origins of discourse ethics through the prism of Apel's thought. Mendieta finds that Apel fundamentally transformed German philosophy, which had become stagnant in the years before World War II, and deeply influenced later thinkers such as JYrgen Habermas.

In The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy, critical theory scholar Eduardo Mendieta examines the philosophical origins of discourse ethics through the prism of Apel's thought. Mendieta finds that Apel fundamentally transformed German philosophy, which had become stagnant in the years before World War II, and deeply influenced later thinkers such as J rgen Habermas.

Philosophical explorations of the processes of globalization, particularly in the context of Latin America.

The essays in this book make it elegantly clear that there is avigorous and rigorous Latin American philosophy... and that others dismiss it attheir peril." -- Mario S enzThe ten essays in this livelyanthology move beyond a purely historical consideration of Latin American philosophyto cover recent developments in political and social philosophy as well asinnovations in the reception of key philosophical figures from the EuropeanContinental tr...

Lange Zeit hatte es den Anschein, als sei die Säkularisierung, also die schwindende Bedeutung des Religiösen, ein ebenso stabiler gesellschaftlicher Trend wie die Individualisierung und die Globalisierung. Doch spätestens seit dem 11. September erleben wir eine Renaissance der Religionen: Die Debatten um Kruzifixe in Schulen, die mediale Hysterie nach der Wahl Papst Benedikts XVI. und den Islam in Europa zwingen uns nun, die Bedeutung von Begr...