El giro decolonial: reflexiones para una diversidad epistémica más allá del capitalsimo global

by Santiago Castro-Gómez (editor)

Artículos de Juan Camilo Cajigas-Rotundo, Santiago Castro-Gómez, Mónica Espinosa, Juliana Flórez-Flórez, Fernando garcés, Ramón Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado Torres, Walter D. Mignolo, Eduardo Restrepo, Carolina Santamaría Delgado, Aníbal Quijano y Catherine Walsh.

307 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Santiago Castro-Gómez is a philosopher known for his works on colonial heritages in Colombia.

He studied philosophy in Universidad Santo Tomás de Bogotá, where he became a disciple of professors of the Grupo de Bogotá, who were the main diffusers in Colombia of the Latin American Philosphy. Then he travelled to Germany to do a Magister in Philosophy
in Tübingen University, and later his PhD in Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Universität de Frankfurt.

Once he returned to Colombia he became a professor in Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, also as a reasearcher for the Instituto Pensar. Along with scholars like Anínal Quijano, Walter Mignolo, Enrique Düssel, Ramón Grosfoguel, Catherine Walsh, Arturo Escobar, Edgardo Lander y Nelson Mladonado-Torres, joined the group Modernidad/Colonialidad, one of the main focus of the Critical Latinoamerican Theory since the beggining of the XXI century.

Reviews

[Roberto Yoed · Rating 1 out of 5]

As anti-proletarian, antiscientific and ahistorical as fascism.

[Josita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Europeos qliaos me caen como la callampa.