From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution requires no temporalized march of progress or takeovers of state power but instead aims at local control and the material conditions for human dignity.

From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover of state power, but as a movement for local control that upholds standards of material conditions for human dignity. Essays on identity, equality, and ethics propose models of transcultural and intercultural relations that replace center/periphery or world-systems approaches; they impel us to focus on building dialogic relationships rather than on accommodating universalized paradigms. Ultimately suggesting a reconstruction of the world in terms of the interests of one of the peripheral regions of the world, Latin American Perspectives on Globalization argues with cogency and urgency that no one within contemporary globalization debates can afford to ignore the Latin American philosophical tradition.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Periphery at the Core
Part 2 The New Conditions of Inequality
Chapter 3 No Longer Broad but Still Alien Is the World: The End of Modernity and the Transformation of Culture in the Times of Globalization
Chapter 4 The Ethics of Globalization and the Golobalization of Ethics
Chapter 5 Transnationalization, the State, and Political Power
Part 6 Rethinking Identity
Chapter 7 Globalization and the Borders of Latinity
Chapter 8 Going Home: Tununa Mercado'sEn estado de memoria
Chapter 9 Globalization, Philosophy, and Latin America
Part 10 Alternative Visions of Globalization
Chapter 11 Humanity and Globalization
Chapter 12 A Global Democratic Order: A Normative Proposal
Chapter 13 Latin American Feminism and the New Challenges of Globalization
Part 14 Projects of Liberation and Social Transformation
Chapter 15 Feminism and Globalization Processes in Latin America
Chapter 16 Latin American Liberation Theology, Globalization, and Historical Projects: From Critique to Construction
Chapter 17 An Alternative to Globalization: Theses for the Development of an Intercultural Philosophy