The invention of the Americas : eclipse of "the other" and the myth of modernity /

The invention of the Americas : eclipse of "the other" and the myth of modernity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dussel, Enrique D.
Other Authors: Barber, Michael D., 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Continuum, [1995]
Subjects:
Columbus, Christopher > Influence.
Indians > First contact with Europeans.
America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish.
Table of Contents:
  • 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).