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In this episode of OP Talks, hosted by Stephen Di Trolio Coakley, Dr. Rafael Vizcaíno shares how his story as a migrant and desire to pursue philosophy led him to the fields of Decolonial Studies and Liberation Philosophy. The trope of fetishization is central to Latin American liberation philosophy and its proposal for an “anti-fetishist” method, as Dr. Vizcaíno discusses in a recent essay; "Liberation Philosophy, Anti-Fetishism, and Decolonization" offers a genealogy of the trope of fetishization elaborated on in the work of the Argentine-Mexican philosopher of liberation Enrique Dussel. Dr. Vizcaíno writes: "[T]he anti-fetishist method consists of deciphering the man-made character of oppressive power relations that behave as if they were necessary and unchangeable transhistorical absolutes." Engaging recent work in cultural anthropology that demonstrates how the notion of “fetishism” develops out of a one-sided Eurocentric anthropology of religion that misrepresents elements of Afro-Atlantic religions, he argues that, without a serious revision of the metaphysical premises of “anti-fetishism,” liberation philosophy risks perpetuating a Eurocentrism that runs counter to the interests of epistemic decolonization to which it is committed. Dr. Vizcaíno outlines the prospects of a decolonial “anti-fetishist” method that might overcome the Eurocentric misapprehension of Afro-Atlantic religions. READ MORE Vizcaíno, R. "Liberation Philosophy, Anti-Fetishism, and Decolonization." Journal of World Philosophies 6.2 (December 2021). LÁPIZ N˚7: Learning Across Liberation Theologies, 2022. Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES).
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