Epistemologías de la Modernidad: entre el etnocentrismo, el racionalismo universalista y las alternativas latinoamericanas

• DOI: 10.4067/s0717-554x2012000300001
• Publication Date: 2013-06-18T15:20:37Z
• Authors: Fernando Robles
• Keywords: colonialism; racionalidad; eurocentrismo; colonialismo; rationality; protestant ethic; world of life; modernidad; eurocentrism; ética protestante; mundo de la vida; modernity

In the context of Eurocentric theories modernity, following article addresses four relevant topics and its corresponding deconstruction.1) Hegel's concept modernity as discovery subjectivity in Western Europe.2) Max Weber's by emphasizing his criticism protestant ethic engine capitalism.3)Jürgen Habermas's conception 'unfinished project', theoretical structure life-world, which occupies a special important place theory modernity.Finally, I discuss strengths weaknesses emerging paradigm decolonization, contribution to improvement their positions.