Co zrobić z zachodnimi uniwersalizmami? Rozważania wokół zwrotu dekolonialnego
What Is to Be Done with Western Universalisms? Thinking Through the Decolonial Turn

Summary/Abstract: Santiago Castro-Gómez poses questions concerning relations and tension between the decolonial theory and universalism. In doing so he polemicizes with the view, frequent in Latin America, maintaining that the fundamental objective of the critical theory and the decolonisation of social sciences, art, and philosophy was to consist of a rejection of all claims to universality, since universalism is an ideology belonging to local European history, and its transference to other cultural domains results in a reproduction of the colonial gesture. On the contrary: according to Castro-Gómez the emancipation policy cannot do without a universalisation of interests.

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