Maps for a Fiesta

Name: Maps for a Fiesta
Brand: Fordham University Press
SKU: 9780823263042
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A Latina/O Perspective on Knowledge and the Global Crisis

Szerző: Otto Maduro

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Fordham University Press

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What can theology offer in the context of neoliberalism, globalization, growing inequality, and an e...

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Szerző

Otto Maduro

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2015

oldal

200

EAN

9780823263042

ISBN

0823263045

Enbook ID

04731835

Kiadó

Fordham University Press

Súly

396

Méretek

236 x 158 x 19

Teljes leírás

What can theology offer in the context of neoliberalism, globalization, growing inequality, and an ever more ecologically precarious planet that disproportionately affects the poor? This book, by one of the country's best-known Latino theologians, explores possibilities for liberation from the forces that would impose certain forms of knowledge on our social world to manipulate our experience of identity, power, and justice. Beautifully written in a refreshingly direct and accessible prose, Maduro's book is nevertheless built upon subtly articulated critiques and insights. But to write a conventional academic tractatus would have run counter to Maduro's project, which is built on his argument that ignorance is masked in the language of expertise, while true knowledge is dismissed because it is sometimes articulated in pedestrian language by those who produce it through the praxis of solidarity and struggle for social justice. With a generosity and receptivity to his readers reminiscent of letters between old friends, and with the pointed but questioning wisdom of a teller of parables, Maduro has woven together a twenty-first-century reply to Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach." Neither conventional monograph nor memoir, neither a theological nor a political tract, but with elements of all of these, Maps for a Fiesta arrives as Maduro's philosophical and theological testament one that celebrates the knowledge-work and justice-making of the poor. What Maduro offers here is a profound meditation on the relationship between knowledge and justice that could be read as a manifesto against the putatively unknowable world that capitalist chaos has made, in favor of a world that is known by the measure of its collective justice. His fiesta grants us the joy that nourishes us in our struggles, just as knowledge gives us the tools to build a more just society. What Maduro offers is nothing less than an epistemology of liberation.

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