Misreading the Rūḥ: Taha Abderrahmane, Enrique Dussel and the ethics of decolonial modernities.
This article explores the contrasting perspectives of Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane and Latin American thinker Enrique Dussel on the question of multiple modernities within South–South intellectual dialogue. While Dussel, grounded in the philosophy of liberation, critiques modernity as an i...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 132 - 156 |
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