Enrique Dussel is one of the most eminent philosophers in Latin
America. The goal of this paper is to introduce Dussel’s philosophy of liberation
and transmodernity. In order to achieve my purpose, I will particularly focus on
the essential philosophical concepts and their structure of his work. This work
consists of the following steps. First, to contextualize his thought, I try to show
his critic of modernity and rationality of enlightenment. Second, I examine
problems of his interpretation of Levinas and Marx that forms a foundation of
philosophy of liberation. It would clarify concepts such as exteriority or alterity
which are most important ideas of philosophy of liberation. According to
Dussel, exteriority and analectics make a philosophical contribution to critic of
totalizing dialectic of eurocentrism. Finally, I argue that Dussel’s originality
comes from geopolitics of knowledge or critic of coloniality. In this regard,
unlike Frankfurt school or postmodernism, transmodern critic of rationality aims
at restoration of ‘reason of other’ that is distinguished from destruction of
reason. Through these processes, I hope to provide a prospect of philosophy
of liberation and transmodernty.