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This paper invites an exercise of ontological reflection on Franz Hinkelammert's theoretical proposal. For this aim, it exposes some conceptual implications of his idea of subject and tries to show how, from it, ethics, epistemology and politics are organized in his work. Although Hinkelammert does not explicitly address an ontology in his writings, the review of his theoretical corpus based on a set of questions linked to the reflection of the ontological level allows us to suggest this dimension or aspect of his thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following article intends an overview on Enrique Dussel's early work and the examination of the development process of political and philosophical categories such as the ones of "Latin-American identity / otherness"; "Latin-American thought" and political and historical subjects. The corpus covered in this study includes the author's anthropological-philosophical research on the origins and fundamentals of the western culture (Christianity) as they appear in the trilogy: El humanismo semita, El humanismo helénico and El dualismo en la antropología de la Cristiandad; the first development of otherness and analectic and the proposition of a new political subject (pueblo) in método para una filosofía de la liberación and Para una ética de la liberación latinoamericana. A review of the first author's historiographical experiences is included as well by the study of his book: Hipótesis para una historia de la iglesia en américa Latina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work reflects on the heuristic and political potential of Michel Foucault's and Roberto Esposito's central theoretical categories regarding subjectivity production in postindustrial societies. After verifying an increasing standardization of contemporary ways of life as a starting point, these authors have developed a set of theoretical tools to define and apprehend this phenomenon as a bio-political moment of power. The leading question of this research is about the fruitfulness of these theoretical categories for thinking and directing political practice of an emancipatory nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]