Goodbye to Enrique Dussel
It is with sadness that we received the news of the passing of Henry Dussel On Sunday, November 5th, at the age of 88, CLACSO extends its deepest condolences to his family and colleagues, confident that his work will endure for future generations.
An academic, philosopher, historian, and theologian from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), renowned for his work in the fields of ethics, political philosophy, and Latin American philosophy, and considered a leading figure in decolonial thought and one of the fathers of liberation philosophy, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in the social sciences at the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Social Sciences (#CLACSO2022) in Mexico. He also graced the Academic Council of the CLACSO journal Tramas y Redes with his presence.
Dussel was born in Mendoza, Argentina, on December 24, 1934, and in 1975 went into exile in Mexico, where he later acquired citizenship. He earned a degree in philosophy from the National University of Cuyo in Argentina in 1957, and a degree in religious studies from the Catholic Institute of Paris in 1965. He also received a doctorate in philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, in 1959, and a doctorate in history from the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1967.
He spent much of his professional career in Mexico, where, among other positions, he was a professor of ethics and political philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a professor-researcher in the Philosophy Department at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) Iztapalapa. He also served as interim rector of the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM).
He was a founding member of the Philosophy of Liberation in Latin America, obtained numerous honorary doctorates, including those from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland, 1981) and the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (La Paz, Bolivia, 1995); he founded the "Revista de Filosofía Latinoamericana" and, during the first decade of the 21st century, was part of the Modernity/Coloniality Group, the main collective of postcolonial thought in Latin America.
CLACSO will certainly miss this great figure in critical theory, a fellow traveler of scientists and humanists in Our America and a fundamental member of our network, always willing to contribute his valuable input to the analysis and development of proposals for our region.
Enrique Dussel's activities, publications, and collaborations with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences are countless, some of which we share again.
Enrique Dussel at #CLACSO2022 Forum "Just Transition: Threats and Responses on and from Latin America"
Enrique Dussel: “If we do not comply with the laws of nature, nature will extinguish us.”
Enrique Dussel and Horacio González. Against Normality: New Political Horizons in Latin America
Enrique Dussel at the InfoCLACSO on June 1, 2022
The vitality of a thought: What Marx for the 21st century?
Enrique Dussel in the CLACSO bibliography
The first philosophical debate of modernity
Author of a book
https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=2239&c=51
20 policy essays
Author of a book (not available in digital version)
https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=184&c=7
The coloniality of knowledge: Eurocentrism and social sciences. Latin American perspectives
Chapter author
https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=164&c=13
The Coloniality of Knowledge: Eurocentrism and the Social Sciences. Latin American Perspectives
Chapter author
https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=247&c=8
The eternal return of populism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Chapter author
https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=729&c=5
Anthology of contemporary Mexican critical thought
Chapter author
https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=1032&c=27
The Flight of the Phoenix. Capital: Critical Readings 150 Years After Its Publication (1867-2017)
Chapter author
https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=1414&c=0
Marx, 200 years. Present, past and future
Chapter author
https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=2207&c=38
For a cancellation of Latin America's external public debt
Author of the prologue
https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=2388&c=5
500 years since the conquest of Mexico
Chapter author
https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=2476&c=0
Statement on the death of Dr. Enrique Dussel from the CLACSO Working Group Just transitions and care for our common home
Letter to a comrade who lives and resists: Enrique Dussel – CLACSO Working Group Political Philosophy. Undisciplined Humanities: Cosmos, Body, and Utopia
Enrique Dussel: activism was his philosophy – CLACSO Working Group History and current situation: Marxist perspectives
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