Enrique Dussel: The first philosophical debate of modernity
In this essay, philosopher Enrique Dussel, with the mastery of the great thinkers, unravels the foundations of the Conquest and its enduring echoes in the history of political, cultural, religious, and economic domination that still persists over the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. At the same time, he recovers the figure and arguments of Bartolomé de las Casas, whose tenacious intervention contributed to the vindication of the "other" in the nascent modern era.
“Dussel’s core thesis is that modern Europe was not built through self-referential creativity but at a devastating cost, obliterating the civilizational content of the original peoples of America and Africa. The events of 1492 marked the simultaneous birth of colonial capitalism, the modern world-system, and racism as a classificatory criterion, a means of inferiorizing and ontologically negating the other.”
José Gandarilla
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