ABSTRACT
The concept of pueblo or ‘people’ has undergone in the thought of Enrique Dussel a process of decolonization. No longer understood to be simply the tool of a ruling class to legitimize itself politically as the normative unifying subjectivity of a nation, it came to mean for Dussel’s Latin American philosophy of liberation a multifaceted collectivity moved by the impetus for the liberation of the oppressed Other. Pueblo is indeed, in this interpretation, the Other. However, the posited exteriority of the Other runs the danger of naturalizing social prejudices and conventions by simply placing them outside the totality of social relations of existence. Hence, a radical notion of intersubjectivity is necessary that subjects to critique metaphysical or ideological conceptions of alterity, while not reducing the relation of self and other to the privileged status of those in power disguised as a symmetrical struggle. Therefore, not only alterity but also intersubjectivity must be denaturalized and examined critically within the ensemble of social relations. To that purpose, this essay analyzes two critical concepts in logics of liberation: The ‘analectical’ concept of infinity that influences Dussel’s thought and the concept of infinity at the heart of Hegel’s logic.
