Environmental Issue and Critical Theory Human Rights

for a reading in Enrique Dussel

Abstract

The article focuses on addressing the relationship between the Critical Theory of Rights and the environmental question from the contribution of the philosopher Enrique Dussel. To this end, the text is organized in two major axes, which follow the introduction, where we reiterate the need to critically reflect on human rights by recognizing the living and denied subjects of the liberation process in Latin America. In the first, we will address the relevance of Dussel as a thinker who thematises Latin America in a radical way, starting from the relationship between his philosophy of liberation and human rights. In the second part, we will point out some elements of the political-criticism of the philosopher from Mendoza for the debate on Human Rights and its implications for the environmental issue in Latin America due to the violent colonial and historical subjugation imposed by the capitalist civilizing model.