Some academic circles in Latin America support the idea that the main purpose of a “decolonial theory” is to denounce eurocentrism. Such circles also argue that “decolonization” of social sciences, art, and philosophy consists in the recovery of the ancient knowledge of indigenous and afro-descendant communities. Finally, they state that the purpose of a critical theory “pursued in Latin America” would consist in denying any aspiration for universality. In this paper, I would like to present some arguments that question such positions. First, I will ask if it is possible to consider cultural identities within particularism. Then, I will address the issue of eurocentrism in order to clarify to what kind of phenomena this term might apply. Af...
Este ensayo trata de la confrontación entre principios universalistas y particularistas en lo que r...
The article intends to contribute to a clearer understanding of what various critical perspectives q...
This essay deals with the confrontation between universalistic and particularistic principies with r...
Este artigo analiza cierta visión de la “teoría decolonial” que rechaza cualquier pretensión de univ...
Our purpose in this research is twofold. On one hand, it is to examine the relations that the concep...
In this paper, we defend that euronorcentric theories of modernity which pursuit the philosophical-s...
Criticism directed to the myth of self-centered modernity in the hegemonic conception of modern scie...
En el presente trabajo se pretende problematizar la noción de universalidad en sus sentidos filosófi...
La crítica al eurocentrismo se basa en el rechazo de la idea según la cual la epistemología europea ...
In this essay, we argue: (1) that modernity is not the ontological unfolding of a universal history,...
O artigo problematiza a relação entre saberes e territórios pondo em questão a idéia eurocêntrica de...
Decoloniality mainly represents the separation of the power base that has as its center an analysis ...
Starting from the idea – expressed by Claude Lévi-Strauss and Tzvetan Todorov – that cultures do not...
El artículo analiza las relaciones que hay entre el eurocentrismo, los prejuicios epistémicos de sup...
El artículo analiza las relaciones que hay entre el eurocentrismo, los prejuicios epistémicos de su...
Este ensayo trata de la confrontación entre principios universalistas y particularistas en lo que r...
The article intends to contribute to a clearer understanding of what various critical perspectives q...
This essay deals with the confrontation between universalistic and particularistic principies with r...
Este artigo analiza cierta visión de la “teoría decolonial” que rechaza cualquier pretensión de univ...
Our purpose in this research is twofold. On one hand, it is to examine the relations that the concep...
In this paper, we defend that euronorcentric theories of modernity which pursuit the philosophical-s...
Criticism directed to the myth of self-centered modernity in the hegemonic conception of modern scie...
En el presente trabajo se pretende problematizar la noción de universalidad en sus sentidos filosófi...
La crítica al eurocentrismo se basa en el rechazo de la idea según la cual la epistemología europea ...
In this essay, we argue: (1) that modernity is not the ontological unfolding of a universal history,...
O artigo problematiza a relação entre saberes e territórios pondo em questão a idéia eurocêntrica de...
Decoloniality mainly represents the separation of the power base that has as its center an analysis ...
Starting from the idea – expressed by Claude Lévi-Strauss and Tzvetan Todorov – that cultures do not...
El artículo analiza las relaciones que hay entre el eurocentrismo, los prejuicios epistémicos de sup...
El artículo analiza las relaciones que hay entre el eurocentrismo, los prejuicios epistémicos de su...
Este ensayo trata de la confrontación entre principios universalistas y particularistas en lo que r...
The article intends to contribute to a clearer understanding of what various critical perspectives q...
This essay deals with the confrontation between universalistic and particularistic principies with r...