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This article analyzes the critique of modernity in Latin American social thought from two conceptions: Walter Mignolo’s position in the modernity/coloniality group, and the critique of the Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza to readings about non-modernity in Brazil. The critique of these two perspectives sheds light on the particular position of Brazil: on one hand, its situation can be analyzed from the broad perspective of Latin America; or on the contrary, the country presents peculiarities that make difficult the task of making a simple overview. The nodal point between these interpretations is in the conception of peripheral and alternative modernity (or modernization), and in the role that this concept plays in both theories.

The article analyzes some central problems of the intercultural dialogue in the context of philosophical, historiographical and political debates promoted by the contemporary LatinAmerican thought. The analysis concerns: the anthropological and ethical approach of interculturalityby Arturo Andrés Roig, its relation with the literary avant-gardes in Latin Americaand its expression in a liberationist philosophy oriented to overcome the patriarchalism; the interculturality as a space for the asking by the other and as intelligence to live together,as well as its educational consequences, with regard to a pedagogy and to an ethics of decolonization; the relation between interculturality and integration of peoples, on the basis of the proposal of Giuseppe Cacciatore about the ethics of imagination.

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This article analyzes the critique of modernity in Latin American social thought from two conceptions: Walter Mignolo's position in the modernity/coloniality group, and the critique of the Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza to readings about non-modernity in Brazil. The critique of these two perspectives sheds light on the particular position of Brazil: on one hand, its situation can be analyzed from the broad perspective of Latin America; or on the contrary, the country presents peculiarities that make difficult the task of making a simple overview. The nodal point between these interpretations is in the conception of peripheral and alternative modernity (or modernization), and in the role that this concept plays in both theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following article intends an overview on Enrique Dussel’s early work and the examination of the development process of political and philosophical categories such as the ones of “Latin-American identity / otherness”; “Latin-American thought” and political and historical subjects. The corpus covered in this study includes the author’s anthropological-philosophical research on the origins and fundamentals of the western culture (Christianity) as they appear in the trilogy: El humanismo semita, El humanismo helénico and El dualismo en la antropología de la Cristiandad; the first development of otherness and analectic and the proposition of a new political subject (pueblo) in Método para una filosofía de la liberación and Para una ética de la liberación latinoamericana. A review of the first author’s historiographical experiences is included as well by the study of his book: Hipótesis para una historia de la Iglesia en América Latina.

Se trata de mostrar y analizar algunas de las lecturas que se han hecho de la obra de Mohandas Gandhi en América Latina en las últimas décadas, a través de un escrito que se balancea entre una investigación empírica y el estudio de un caso que permite presentar dos problemas teóricos. Para esto se abordan autores y autoras de diversos países de la región, que permiten aludir a dos problemas teóricos que se formulan en este trabajo: la circulación de las ideas entre regiones Sur-Sur, la reelaboración de las ideas en la región receptora. Estos problemas son claves en el desarrollo de los estudios eidéticos como disciplina. Se realiza una introducción respecto a la recepción de las ideas de Gandhi en la región hacia 1930, estudiando las articulaciones del pensamiento de éste con otros autores y tendencias de pensamiento y señalando algunas recepciones y cruzamientos posteriores. Luego el trabajo se focaliza en estudiosos de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, México, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico y Venezuela, tratando de presentar varios casos diferentes y que cubran numerosos países de la región, apuntando a un muestreo válido, aunque sin suficiente afirmación metodológica.The intention of this work is to show and analyze some of the readings that have been done about Mohandas Gandhi’s work in Latin America in the last decades, by means of a writing that swings between an empirical research and the study of a case that allows to present two theoretical problems. For this there are approached authors and authoresses of diverse countries of the region, who allow to allude to two theoretical problems that are formulated in this work: the flow of the ideas between South-South regions, the reformulation of the ideas in the receiving region. These issues are key to the development of the eidéticos studies as a discipline. An introduction is made regarding the reception of the ideas of Gandhi in the region by 1930, studying the joints of his thought and of those of other authors and trends of thought, pointing out some receptions and later crosses. Then the work focuses in experts of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and Venezuela, trying to present several different cases covering numerous countries of the region, pointing at a valid sampling, though without sufficient methodological affirmation.

Ante la pregunta por las maneras en que la intelectualidad de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) ha intentado pensar más allá del estado nación y frente a la inquietud surgida por una agenda metanacional pensada por-para esta misma intelectualidad se estudia la obra de Leopoldo Zea. Se presentan cuatro niveles en los cuales Leopoldo Zea formuló una agenda metanacional para esta intelectualidad: los estudios eidéticos, el pensamiento y la filosofía de ALC, la creación de redes de estudios de ALC y la difusión mundial de la cultura mexicana. Esto se hace por relación a numerosas formulaciones realizadas por personas que intentaron evaluar la obra y la trayectoria del importante pensador mexicano: Werner Altmann, Carolina Guerrero, Abelardo Villegas, Enrique Dussel, Tzvi Medin, Javier Pinedo, Alberto Saladino, Fernando Aínsa, Pablo Guadarrama, entre otras. Se intenta finalmente proyectar algunas ideas de Leopoldo Zea más allá de lo que él mismo formuló.Facing the question about the forms in which the Latin American-Caribbean intellectuality has though beyond the nation-state and facing the question about a meta-national "agenda" entertained by this same intellectuality, I study the work of Leopoldo Zea. I present four levels in which Leopoldo Zea built a meta-national "agenda" for the intellectuality above mentioned: the firs level related to eidetical studies, the second is about LAC philosophy and thought; the third level aims at the creation of intellectual-networks in LAC; the last one refers to the spread out of Mexican culture worldwide. This article has been elaborated taking, also, a lot of contributions offered by authors who have written about this Mexican philosopher: Werner Altman, Carolina Guerrero, Abelardo Villegas, Enrique Dussel, Tzvi Medin, Javier Pinedo, Alberto Saladino, Fernando Aínsa, Pablo Guadarrama, among others. Finally I intend to launch some ideas of Leopoldo Zea beyond his own conceptions.

Dentro de un proyecto de largo aliento en torno a las relaciones y paralelos entre el pensamiento de América Latina y el Caribe con el de Asia y África, se trata de determinar los modos a través de los cuales las ideas de las ciencias económico-sociales producidas en esta región llegaron a aquellas y se diseminaron allí. Se abordan 6 modelos más importantes y otros de menos importancia para entender los procesos de circulación a través de: Instituciones académicas del Primer Mundo; Encuentros de cientistas económico-sociales; Redes sobre cuestiones del desarrollo; Estadías de latinoamericanos en Asia y África; Conferencias y congresos internacionales; Publicaciones. Se entregan ejemplos para cada uno de éstos y luego se jerarquizan, de acuerdo a la importancia específica para la circulación de las ideas de que se ocupa el trabajo. Se intenta, como conclusión, pensar más en general acerca de la circulación de las ideas en las regiones periféricas, teniendo en cuenta la necesidad de aumentar y otorgarle más densidad a dicha circulación.As a part of a project about the relations and parallels between Latin American and Caribbean thought with the African's one, I will try here to determine the ways through which the ideas of socio-economical sciences generated in the former region went to the latter and spread out there. I'll research into the 6 most important "models", as well as others of lesser importance, in order to understand the process of circulation of ideas through: Academic institutions of the first world; Meetings of economic-social scientists; Networks about developmental themes; Stays of Latin American researchers in Asia and Africa; International conferences and congresses; and Publications. Examples are offered for each one of these "models" and then ranked, according to the specific importance for the circulation of ideas above mentioned. As a conclusion, I intend to think, in a larger scope, about the circulation of ideas in the peripheral regions, considering the necessity to enlarge and give more density to this circulation.

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The following article intends an overview on Enrique Dussel's early work and the examination of the development process of political and philosophical categories such as the ones of "Latin-American identity / otherness"; "Latin-American thought" and political and historical subjects. The corpus covered in this study includes the author's anthropological-philosophical research on the origins and fundamentals of the western culture (Christianity) as they appear in the trilogy: El humanismo semita, El humanismo helénico and El dualismo en la antropología de la Cristiandad; the first development of otherness and analectic and the proposition of a new political subject (pueblo) in método para una filosofía de la liberación and Para una ética de la liberación latinoamericana. A review of the first author's historiographical experiences is included as well by the study of his book: Hipótesis para una historia de la iglesia en américa Latina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 21st century, the field of communication policies studies has launched a timely process of revision of notions of 'communication policy' and 'media policy' in the light of changes observed in their definition, scope and praxis. One of the central aspects of the discussion is the growing strength gained since the mid-1980s by private actors, supranational political organisations and independent bodies with regard to the definition, adoption and implementation of regulatory measures, to the detriment of state government leadership. This article aims to contribute to that debate in two ways. The first is to draw on 1970s' Latin-American thought on national communication policies (NCPs) as cultural autonomy, democratisation and development tools. The second is to present how these ideas were received by a number of scholars in Catalonia in the 1980's and how they have re-elaborated the NCP concept on the basis of the importance of public communication policies for national reconstruction in a stateless nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the relation between Catholic Christian theology in Mexico in the XVIIth century, specifically in the ideas of authors who belonged to the Society of Jesus, and the Baroque style in the works which were created in that historical period, most of all in paintig, poetry and architecture. The ideas expressed by Tomás de Alfaro, S.J. (ca. 1667) and Luis de Villanueva, S.J. (1605-1659) are especially studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]