Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor and the Philosophy of Liberation

Dussel shows how North American and European philosophers have presupposed a no-longer-acceptable philosophy of history that has led them to fall into a developmental fallacy, the belief that there is a linear sequence that moves from the pre-modern, underdeveloped, or on the way to industrialisation, to the modern, developed, and industrialised.