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Moving through a brilliant exposition of stages of early modernity in Spain/Portugal, its movement into Northern Europe (Holland) into the beginnings of mature modernity in UK/France. Careful exegesis of Las Casas, Sepulveda, Suarez, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hobbes, Hume, Smith, Rousseau all covered. Crazy what a piece of shit most of these people were re colonialism/slavery (excepting Las Casas/Rousseau).

Dussel really getting into his critique of Eurocentric accounts of modernity at this point. Similar, but expanded, to his work The Invention of the Americas. Some great work on Chinese, Ottoman, and Venetian political thinkers/systems pre 1492. Great account of “early modernity” beginning in southern Europe (Spain/Portugal) in the 16th century.

Dussel really is polymathic in his ability to weave together philosophy, linguistics, world systems theory, political theory and history, and classical studies. It’s continually shocking and frustrating how little of his work has been translated into English. The beginning of this work is a doozy- quite literally giving an anti-Euro/Hellenic world history of political development from the Neolithic era up to 1492.

Capítulo 2: Localización del lugar Crítico-Político en la “Modernidad Temprana” (desde 1492)

5. La politica en la Europa germanica aislada y periférica

3. El mundo latino-cristiano del Imperio romano occidental

4. La Rebelión de las Victimas y la Lenta Invención del Estado Secular

Ch. 3: Los Grandes Imperios del Caballo y del Hierro

Capítulo 1. Localización del Lugar Criticó-Político en los Sistemas Regionales Anteriores a 1492