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Mendieta, Eduardo

La dialettica della colonialità : verso una coscienza decoloniale postsecolare

2022 - Franco Angeli

22-44 p.

  • The background claim of the essay is that what Jürgen Habermas calls Postsecular can be understood as reflexive secularization, which can also be formulated in the following formula: to secularize secularization, a formula that in turn could be translated into two other formulas: to provincialize secularization and to deEuropeanize secularization. To back up this claim, the question is taken up of what are or were the secular and secularization, and how they relate to colonialism and decolonization. To this aim, the socalled debate between Karl Löwith and Hans Blumenberg on secularization is revisited (1). Some uses of the terms secular and secularization are also reconsidered by relying on José Casanova's synoptic essay Exploring the Postsecular (2). The concomitant question is posed of how it can be spoken of the Postsecular, given what we have taken secularization to mean (3).
  • In the concluding section (4), the focus turns on the work of Enrique Dussel and especially on what he has called the epistemological decolonization of theology, as a way to link the postsecular to decoloniality. [Publisher's text].

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Società degli individui : 75, 3, 2022