ALTERNATIVE MODERNITIES:

AN INTER- CULTURAL TRANSMODERN DIALOGUE BETWEEN A MUSLIM AND A CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER

October 14, 2003

Participants:
Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Philosophy at the College of Geneva and Islamic Studies at Fribourg University.
Enrique Dussel is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Aut?oma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa and at the Universidad Nacional Aut?oma de M?ico

Given the urgent need for dialogue between cultures and civilizations, the CMES in cooperation with the Center for Latin American Studies has organized a conversation between two prominent philosophers, both of whom locate their thinking on the margins of the West: one Latin American Christian and the other Islamic. Among the issues to be addressed in this transmodern dialogue are the present clash of fundamentalisms, modernities beyond the monologic global design of Western modernity, alternatives to the binary of Eurocentrism vs. fundamentalism, and the question of Islamic modernity.

Professor Enrique Dussel is the founder of Liberation Philosophy and Theology of Liberation in Latin America. He has published 60 book-length works and over 300 articles, including multi-volume works on Latin American church history, ethics, and Marxist theory.

Professor Tariq Ramadan is a leading Islamic thinker among Europe's second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants especially well-known for his articulations of an independent European Islam. He is also the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Co-Sponsored with the Center for Latin American Studies