Walter D Mignolo

The Darker Side of Western Modernity

Global Futures, Decolonial Options

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Produktbeschreibung

A new and more concrete understanding of the inseparability of colonialism and modernity that also explores how the rhetoric of modernity disguises the logic of coloniality and how this rhetoric has been instrumental in establishing capitalism as the econ

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 164mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 750g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350606
• ISBN-10: 0822350602
• Artikelnr.: 33396981

Autorenporträt

Walter D. Mignolo

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Coloniality: The Darker Side of Western Modernity 1
Part One
1. The Roads to the Future: Rewesternization, Dewesternization, and
Decoloniality 27
Part Two
2. I Am Where I Do: Remapping the Order of Knowing 77
3. It Is "Our" Modernity: Delinking, Independent Thought, and Decolonial
Freedom 118
Part Three
4. (De)Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference 149
5. The Darker Side of Enlightenment: A Decolonial Reading of Kant's
Geography 181
Part Four
6. The Zapatistas' Theoretical Revolution: Its Historical, Ethical, and
Political Consequences 213
7. Cosmopolitan Localisms: Overcoming Colonial and Imperial Differences 252
Afterword. "Freedom to Choose" and the Decolonial Option: Notes toward
Communal Futures 295
Notes 337
Bibliography 365
Index 389