Latin American Philosophy Reading Group

Reading List for Winter 2008

Topic:

Decoloniality: Origins, Themes, Debates

Weeks 2-3: Aimé Césaire, “Discourse on Colonialism” (1953)

Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “Césaire’s Gift and the Decolonial Turn”

Weeks 4-5: Aníbal Quijano, “Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality” (2007)

Maria Lugones, “Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System” (2007)

Weeks 6-8: Ofelia Schutte, “The Philosophy of Liberation in Critical Perspective” (1993)
& “Origins and Tendencies of the Philosophy of Liberation in Latin American Thought: A Critique of Dussel’s Ethics” (1991)

Enrique Dussel, The Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor and the Philosophy of Liberation (1993) (Selections)

Weeks 9-10: Essays from Latin@s in the World System: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st U.S. Empire (2005) by Grosfoguel, Maldonado-Torres, Saldivar

Immanuel Wallerstein, Latin@s: What’s in a Name (31-41)

Enrique Dussel, “Ser Hispano”: Un Mundo en el “Border” de Muchos Mundos” (41-57)

Walter Mignolo, “Huntington’s Fears: “Latinidad” in the Horizon of the Modern/Colonial World (57-71)

Lewis R. Gordon, Black Latin@s and Blacks in Latin America: Some Philosophical Considerations (89-101)