eclipse of "the other" and the myth of modernity /
Enrique Dussel ; translated by Michael D. Barber.
New York :
Continuum,
1995.
224 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-209) and index.
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- From the European ego: the covering over -- Eurocentrism -- From the invention to the discovery of the New World -- From the conquest to the colonization of the life-world -- The spiritual conquest: toward the encounter between two worlds? -- Transition: the Copernican revolution of the hermeneutic key -- Critique of the myth of modernity -- Amerindia in a non-Eurocentric vision of world history -- From the invasion to the discovery of the other -- From the parousia of the gods to the invasion -- From the resistance to the end of the world and the sixth sun -- Diverse meanings of the terms Europe, the occident, modernity, late capitalism -- Two paradigms of modernity -- From the discovery of the Atlantic to 1502 -- Map of the Fourth Asiatic Peninsula of Henry Martellus (Florence 1489).