Towards the dignified life: the colonial situation and the possibilities for liberation from the Latin American philosophy

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3241393

Keywords:

Latin American philosophy, epistemology from the South, counter-hegemony

Abstract

In the present paper, we intend to make a review of the most relevant ideas of some contemporary Latin American philosophers: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Arturo Roig, Raúl Fornet Betancourt y Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui.  There is an emergency, in the communities oppressed by the colonial mentality, to produce and claim an epistemology from the margins, we mean, to bet for a counter-he- gemonic globalization, that returns us our stolen dignity since 1492. The possibility of creating a philosophy from our situation of colonized, is presented as a political program by the philosophy of liberation, and as a manifestation of the dignified life for Latin American people.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

DUSSEL, Enrique (1996), Filosofía de la liberación. Bogotá. Nueva América.

FORNET BETANCOURT, Raúl (2001). Transformación intercultural de la filosofía. Bilbao, Desclée de Brouwer.

ROIG, Arturo (2011). Rostro y filosofía de Nuestra América. Buenos Aires. Una Ventana.

------------------(2002). Ética del poder y moralidad de la protesta, Mendoza, Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.
RIVERA CUSICANQUI, Silvia, (2010) Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: una reflexión sobre prácticas y discursos descolonizadores, Buenos Aires, Tinta Limón.

SANTOS, Boaventura de Sousa, (2009) Una epistemología del Sur: la reinvención del conocimiento y la emancipación social, México, Siglo XXI / CLACSO.

Published

2019-06-12

How to Cite

Towards the dignified life: the colonial situation and the possibilities for liberation from the Latin American philosophy. (2019). Encuentros. Revista De Ciencias Humanas, Teoría Social Y Pensamiento Crítico, 10, 47-59. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3241393

Similar Articles

1-10 of 103

You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.