From the exteriority of capital to the exteriority of the communication community: the creation from scratch in the thinking of Enrique Dussel. An approximation

Abstract

In this paper we address two of the central stages in the development of Enrique Dussel's philosophical liberation thought, namely: the stage of Marx's in-depth study and the stage in which our author enters into debate with K-Otto Apel and his discourse ethics. The question to answer is the following: Is there any correspondence between Marx's critique of capital and Dussel's critique of the ethics of Apel's discourse?, to which we will respond by developing Dussel's Levinasian interpretation of Marx's critique of political economy, accounting for the categorical structure that follows from such an interpretation, in which the category of Exteriority and the notion of creation from nowhere they will be central to the critique of capital as Totality. Based on the above, we will argue in the present work that: such a categorical structure, which Dussel discovers as inherent to Marx's criticism, is the implicit starting point from which our author will criticize K-Otto Apel, criticism predominantly focused on his notion communication community; Likewise, taking the category of Exteriority as a common thread, we will maintain that: the notion of creation from nothing is central to conceive the possibility of building a new communication community as a Totality, in which the Other-argumentator as the architect of the new Agreements will be located in a symmetrical position of participation for the creation of the new consensus.