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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Main Author: Enrique Dussel
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Université Paris 3 2010-06-01
Series:Cahiers des Amériques Latines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cal/1525
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spelling doaj-533c1439a3e44213af799c8256573e5e2020-11-24T20:46:35ZfraUniversité Paris 3Cahiers des Amériques Latines1141-71612268-42472010-06-0162374610.4000/cal.1525De la philosophie de la libérationEnrique DusselThe 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.http://journals.openedition.org/cal/1525modernitycolonialitypowerknowledge
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author Enrique Dussel
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De la philosophie de la libération
Cahiers des Amériques Latines
modernity
coloniality
power
knowledge
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title De la philosophie de la libération
title_short De la philosophie de la libération
title_full De la philosophie de la libération
title_fullStr De la philosophie de la libération
title_full_unstemmed De la philosophie de la libération
title_sort de la philosophie de la libération
publisher Université Paris 3
series Cahiers des Amériques Latines
issn 1141-7161
2268-4247
publishDate 2010-06-01
description 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.
topic modernity
coloniality
power
knowledge
url http://journals.openedition.org/cal/1525
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