In this essay, we connect ourselves with the efforts provided by some authors to elaborate a radical and ethical critique in the field of Organization Studies (OS) liberated, at least in some parts, from the colonization by management. In this direction, we take as reference the propositions of Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation (PL), which are critically situated in Latin America. In the first part, we present a comprehensive overview of this vast oeuvre, justified by the partial and even incoherent appropriation that has been happening in OS. In the second part, we discuss some of these appropriations considering some Latin American authors of the OS field, highlighting specially the Brazilian context. This critical dialogue is indispensable to liberate the path for the contribution of Dussel's PL to the exercise of a critique that negates, side by side with the victims, the legitimacy of a system that explores and oppresses, and that, simultaneously, gets involved with the affirmation of human life in community, and therefore, with the praxis of liberation.
Philosophy of Liberation; Praxis of Liberation; Critique; Enrique Dussel; Block of the Oppressed.
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