Abstract

LOZANO SUAREZ, Luz María. Transmodernity: Method for a Decolonial Political Project. From Enrique Dussel to Santiago Castro-Gómez. Eidos [online]. 2020, n.spe34, pp.322-350.  Epub Nov 26, 2021. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.34.199.8.

This article seeks to analyze how the sense of transmodernity is subsumed in philosopher Santiago Castro-Gómez, to propose an emancipatory policy. Transmodernity is a decolonial project proposed by Enrique Dussel in 1994. Modernity, defined as a sacrificial myth -eurocentric, colonizing, and capitalist- would be overcome from the moment in which it is possible to affirm the otherness of the universal cultures -ana-lectic-. Such a project of the Philosophy of Liberation can be conceived as a method that would take the best of modernity -its rational character-, but in an opposite sense to political, cultural, and economic domination. Gastro-Gómez assumes this method to propose a transmodern republicanism. In this text, the possible modernity/ coloniality dialog, corroborated by these two philosophers, will be established as the guiding thread to determine how a new way of understanding the ontology of emancipatory (not liberating) politics, presented by the Colombian philosopher, is possible.

Keywords : Transmodenity; modernity; emancipatory politics; concrete universality; Philosophy of Liberation; analectic; dialectic.

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