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Burnt Offerings to Rationality: A Feminist Reading of the Construction of Indigenous Peoples in Enrique Dussel's Theory of Modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Lynda Lange
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Abstract

The philosopher Enrique Dussel offers a critical analysis of European construction of indigenous peoples which he calls “transmodern.” His theory is especially relevant to feminist and other concerns about the potential disabling effects of postmodern approaches for political action and the development of theory. Dussel divides modernity into two concurrent paradigms. Reflection on them suggests that modernism and postmodernism should not be too strongly distinguished. In conclusion, his approach is compared with that of Mohanty.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multiculturalism and Postcolonial Challenges, Part 2 , Summer 1998 , pp. 132 - 145
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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