In early February, a series of seminars on human values began in Barcelona at the International School of Intercultural Philosophy (EIFI). These take place at a special institution: the Casa d’Espiritualitat Sant Felip Neri. Central to the first seminar were the decolonisation of thought and the theology of migration.
Photo: Rolando Vázquez Melken, Jorge Castillo Guerra, Raúl Fornet-Betancourt
Migration is of all times. Once upon a time, the first humanoids roamed from Africa across the European continent and the first human species - Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens - mixed with each other. As Euro-Asians, their descendants continued their way through the Bering Strait to the Americas, and so on.
Much later, other migrants went in search of other cultures. Marco Polo's parents and Marco Polo himself travelled through Mongolia to China and returned home in amazement. Somewhat later, Columbus undertook his journey across a still unknown sea and equally returned with many stories. However, his journey did not lead to an encounter with the Other but to an imperialist invasion of a hitherto unknown continent.
Thus, the year 1492 marks the beginning of the global exploitation of overseas territories and the subjugation of peoples. It led to a division between the West and the rest with all its inhumane consequences. Consequences of which we see the effects now more than ever: people with no livelihood opportunities seek their way to where a life can be built.
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INTERCULTURAL PUBLICATION
Dr. Claudio Valencia Estrada, Editorial Director of the Guillermo de Ockham Journal of the UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN BUENAVENTURA in Colombia, has been so kind to share with the readers of the EIFI community a review of volume 22-I of this journal.
In his writing he highlights the concept of interculturality proposed by the guest editor, Dr. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, and values the different contributions in the thirteen articles that make up this collective issue dedicated to the theme: "The contemporary world as a challenge for an intercultural philosophy or thinking".
Thanks to Dr. Valencia for this review, and also for providing the cover images and table of contents.
José Manuel Fajardo Salinas
Today's world as a challenge for intercultural philosophy and intercultural thinking
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Many thanks to the author of this review:
Dr. Claudio Valencia Estrada,
Editorial Director of the Journal Guillermo de Ockham, UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN BUENAVENTURA, Colombia
Revista Guillermo de Ockham. Vol. 22-1
Del índice/ From the Contents
Editorial
Raúl Fornet Betancourt
Artículos de investigación/ Research articles
Edward Demenchonok
Reina Saldaña Duque
Israel Arturo Orrego-Echeverría /
Manuel Leonardo Prada Rodríguez
Artículo de revisión / Revue article
Hans Oviedo-Gómez
Artículos de reflexión / Reflection articles
Alcira Beatriz Bonilla
Bianca Boteva-Richter
Magali Mendes de Menezes
José Manuel Fajardo Salinas
Pablo Guadarrama
Josef Estermann
Ricardo Salas Astrain
Myriam Alba Zapata-Jiménez
Lorena Zuchel / Lorena González
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It is worth noting that
the review is open access available on:
Concordia. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie.
Revista Internacional de Filosofía. Revue Internationale
de Philosophie. International Journal of Philosophy.
vol. 85 (2024)
with articles from
Tim Glogner
Gabriele Münnix
Josu Landa
Jean-François Petit
Ricardo Salas Astrain
Fidel Tubino
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Raúl Fornet-Betancourt
De le soledad.
Para una filosofía del buen trato
con la soledad
(Filosofía Hoy, vol. 101)
Editorial Comares, Granada 2023
ISBN: 978-84-1369-599-0
From the author's foreword
Whoever wants to know, if he wants to attain authentic knowledge, must be willing to go on the way with what he wants to know, learn to esteem it, found community with it, and be reborn into the world from the history of the commonly trodden path.
This is the kind of knowledge of solitude to which this book aims to contribute. The two chapters that comprise it respond to this intention.
In the first, so to speak, we meet thinkers who in the history of philosophy have travelled the path of solitude.
With the support of this exercise of historical memory on dealing with solitude, the second chapter analyses some fields of encounter and dealing with solitude as testing grounds for learning a good way of dealing with solitude, which is what the kind of knowledge of and with solitude that our reflections in this book aim at should lead to.
Concordia. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie.
Revista Internacional de Filosofía. Revue Internationale
de Philosophie. International Journal of Philosophy.
vol. 84 (2023)
Philosophie in Kuba
Philosophy in Cuba
Filosofía en Cuba
Philosophie à Cuba
Pablo Guadarrama
Gastherausgeber / Guest editor
Editor invitado / Editeur invité
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Mirijam Salfinger,
Für eine Kultur des Friedens.
Aktualität und Aktualisierung
der Befreiungstheologie
Ignacio Ellacurías in El Salvador
(Concordia. Reihe Monographien. Bd. 76)
Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, Aachen 2023
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ISBN : 978-3-95886-489-4
Concordia. Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie.
Revista Internacional de Filosofía. Revue Internationale
de Philosophie. International Journal of Philosophy.
vol. 83 (2023)
with articles from :
Franz Hinkelammert
František Novosád
Maria Elisa Bonaudi
Josef Estermann
Béatrice Faye
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ISBN: 978-84-293-3183-7
EAN: 9788429331837
Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (ed.),
Vernünftige Hoffnung - hoffende Vernunft.
Quellen der Hoffnung in schwierigen Zeiten.
Reasonable Hope - hopeful Reason
Sources of Hope in difficult Times
Esperanza razonable - razón esperanzada
Fuentes de esperanza en tiempos difíciles
Espoir raisonnable - raison qui espère
Sources d'espoir en temps difficiles
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This book has been published as volume 48 in the series Denktraditionen im Dialog: Studien zur Befreiung und Interkulturalität", in the editorial Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, Aachen.
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Anayansi Castellon Jiménez / Yeniselis González Mederos
Madonna González Yera / Marilys Marrero Fernández
Yaima Martínez Alemán / María Luz Mejías Herrera
ESTUDIOS SOBRE FILOSOFÍA EN CUBA,
Aachen/Barcelona: Edición digital EIFI, 2023.
It is the work of six Cuban women philosophers, professors in the Philosophy Department of the Universidad Central de las Villas.
In the works compiled in this book, the authors deal with central themes of the philosophical discussion in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution, such as the meaning of philosophical historiography in Cuba, the ideological use of national history or the question of the relationship between philosophy or artistic creation and political commitment.
This publication as well as the other volumes of the "EIFI Digital Edition" is available in the virtual library (www.eifi.one > virtual library).
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Raúl Fornet-Betancourt
Mundo – Filosofía Intercultural – Existencia,
Aachen/Barcelona: Edición digital EIFI, 2023.
The works collected in this volume, as the title indicates, want to invite us to think that philosophy, especially as intercultural philosophy, has to conduct its intercultural dialogue with the world as a dialogue which is at the same time an engagement with the existential questions which burden human beings in their life worlds.
>> Contents and Foreword (span.)
This publication as well as the other volumes of the "EIFI Digital Edition" is available in the virtual library (www.eifi.one > virtual library).
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>> For the access code, please contact: eifi.secretaria@gmail.com .
From 2 to 4 November, the 20th International Seminar of the North-South Dialogue Programme took place in Barcelona. Its topic: "New forms of oppression and liberation today".
Numerous participants came to dialogue with speakers from different regions of the world - from Africa, America, Asia and Europe - on the state of humanity in today's world. The description of new forms of oppression and liberation was the starting point for an in-depth examination of the metamorphosis of these forms at the crossroads between oppression and liberation, and for asking the necessary question of where the strength can come from so that people can recognise the ethical urgency of following the path of liberation and also want to follow this path.
>> More on this in the conference report, which will be published in the issue 85 of Concordia. International Review of Philosophy, that is upcoming.
>> an advance notice: The acts of this 20th International Seminar of the North-South Dialogue Programme will be published soon. They will include all the papers in full text.
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>> For the access code, please contact: eifi.secretaria@gmail.com .