Early Modernity, Peripheral-Colonial Modernization, and Critical Christian Discourses, According to Enrique Dussel's Mature Politics of Liberation

Abstract

This article delineates a meticulous analysis of the reconfiguration offered by Enrique Dussel's mature politics of liberation concerning the historical-philosophical phenomenon of European Modernity, with particular emphasis on the argumentative stance of certain critical philosophical-theological-political theorizations emerging from peripheral Christianism during the American colonial period. Consequently, it elucidates some of the primary antecedents upon which Dussel's mature liberationist political discourse rests, underscored by their function during that historical period as emancipatory alternatives to the hegemonic philosophy and theology of imperial Christianity. Finally, it depicts the overarching tenets of Dussel's philosophical-political reception of the intellectual legacies of figures, such as Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (16^th century), Guamán Poma de Ayala (17^th century), and certain exiled Jesuits (18^th century).