Modernity, European Empires, Colonialism and Capitalism

Abstract

"This paper will only consider the fundamental thesis, the first of which is that the four subjects included in the title are simultaneously originated, co-imply each other and are mutually determined. In fact, these four subjects which 1 wish to articulate, have various treatments, their own problems, specialists and bibliographies. Of course, they make reference to historical realities of which no one can deny their relevance and existence. However, what 1 intend in this paper is to cross-examine and to articulate the four problems in a sole argument, in order to provide more importance to: a) in the criticism of Eurocentric ideology (the invisible basis of human sciences which has a predominant presence in Europe and in the United States and, unfortunately, in a large portion of the world periphery); and b) in the discernment of the fundamental thesis of a postcolonial liberation thought (the "trans-modem" question), which commits itself so that "Another world may be possible" (the novel "Alter-Mundaneness'', which the Philosophy ofLiberation helped to formulate)."