Towards a cosmopoetic reading of liberation aesthetics

Abstract

Aesthetics -as a necessary moment of an architectural liberation- was worked on several times in the work of Enrique Dussel. Although already in the Philosophy of Liberation (1976) important passages are dedicated to it, the interest of the Argentine-Mexican thinker for aesthetic issues has been acquiring greater development and presence in later reflections. His most recent contributions on the subject have been compiled in the Seven hypotheses of Aesthetics of Liberation, where, from a phenomenological foundation of aesthetic experience, his study is expanded towards a natural aesthetic (prior to the poetic or productive moment, which corresponds to human cultural artistic productions). This way of approach implies –in our judgment- a novelty in Dussel's thought, since it suggests a displacement with respect to a certain anthropocentrism that could be seen in previous reflections. This work will attempt to highlight the implications that this "turn" may have regarding the horizon of a Philosophy of Liberation as a response to the current challenges in the face of the environmental crisis and the urgency of an epistemic paradigm shift, within which an aesthetic open to thinking non-anthropocentric - which we will temporarily call cosmopoetic - can offer a crucial intervention.