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be one of the commentators in the workshop ââHistorical Capitalism, Coloniality of Power, and Transmodernity,ââ featuring presentations by Immanuel Wallerstein, Anibal Quijano, and Enrique Dussel. Speakers were asked to oï¬er updates and to elaborate on the concepts attributed to them. Reï¬ecting on ââtransmodernity,ââ Dussel made a remark that I take as a central point of my argument. According to Dussel, postmodern criticism of modernity is important and necessary, but it is not enough. The argument was developed by Dussel in his recent short but important dialogue with Gianni Vattimoâs work, which he characterized as a ââeurocentric critique of modernity.ââ 1 What else can there be, beyond a Eurocentric critique of modernity and Eurocentrism? Dussel has responded to this question with the concept of transmodernity, by which he means that modernity is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon, to which the ââexcluded barbariansââ have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged. Dusselâs argument resembles, then, the South Asian Subaltern Studies project, although it has The South Atlantic Quarterly ï±ï°ï±:ï±, Winter ï²ï°ï°ï². Copyright © ï²ï°ï°ï² by Duke University Press. 6672 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY / 101:1 / sheet 62 of 249 Walter D. Mignolo been made from
South Atlantic Quarterly – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2002
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