Transmodernity: Method for a Decolonial Political Project. From Enrique Dussel to Santiago Castro-Gómez [Spanish]

Authors

  • Luz María Lozano Suárez Universidad del Atlántico (Barranquilla, Colombia)

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze how the sense of transmodernity is subsumed in philosopher Santiago Castro-Gómez, to propose an emancipatory policy. Transmodernity is a decolonial project proposed by Enrique Dussel in 1994. Modernity, defined as a sacrificial myth -eurocentric, colonizing, and capitalist- would be overcome from the moment in which it is possible to affirm the otherness of the universal cultures —analectic—. Such a project of the Philosophy of Liberation can be conceived as a method that would take the best of modernity —its rational character—, but in an opposite sense to political, cultural, and economic domination. Gastro-Gómez assumes this method to propose a transmodern republicanism. In this text, the possible modernity/coloniality dialog, corroborated by these two philosophers, will be established as the guiding thread to determine how a new way of understanding the ontology of emancipatory (not liberating) politics, presented by the Colombian philosopher, is possible.


Author Biography

  • Luz María Lozano Suárez, Universidad del Atlántico (Barranquilla, Colombia)
    Filósofa y maestra en arte dramático de la Universidad del Atlántico,
    magíster en Educación de la Universidad del Norte y Ph.D. en Filosofía de la Universidad Paris VIII-Vincennes Vincennes Saint Denis. Profesora de planta la Universidad del Atlántico

Published

2020-11-14

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