About the Author

Enrique Dussel is the most significant Latin American philosopher today and one of the world's leading Marxist philosophers. He is one of the founders of liberation theology and has written over 40 books, some of which have been translated into English, French, German and Italian. He is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitanta in Iztapalapa, Mexico and the Edward Kennedy Professor at the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.