De la philosophie de la libération
The objective of this paper is to examine three key concepts that form the main structure of the « modernity/coloniality » group: the coloniality of power, the coloniality of knowledge and the coloniality of being. These three concepts and the articulation among them is what the Colombian philosophe...
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| Language: | fra |
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Université Paris 3
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Cahiers des Amériques Latines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cal/1525 |
| Summary: | The objective of this paper is to examine three key concepts that form the main structure of the « modernity/coloniality » group: the coloniality of power, the coloniality of knowledge and the coloniality of being. These three concepts and the articulation among them is what the Colombian philosopher Santiago Castro-Gómez has called « the three-headed hydra ». I will show that coloniality of being is a conceptual synthesis under which the other two are subsumed; this concept expresses the concrete form of domination exercised by colonialism in Latin America and the third world. |
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| ISSN: | 1141-7161 2268-4247 |