The dusselian analectic thought in the construction of southern epistemologies and the overcoming of modern irrationalism: a critique of the habermasian dialectical method of including the other

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the models of recognition and inclusion offered by Enrique Dussel and Jürgen Habermas. It seeks, with emphasis on Dussel's decolonial perspective, to point out the limits of the Habermasian model, particularly in the context of a colonial past.  It thus seeks to discuss the myth of Modernity and the consequent construction of the abyssal line that divided the world between the "over there" and the "over here" and the epistemological and juridical consequences of this division. In a second moment, we try to examine the theories formulated from the 19th century on the recognition of the Other in order to criticize them based on a universalizing dialectic logic and to propose the use of the so-called analectics as a mechanism of effective liberation of the Latin American peoples, whose logic would be capable of grounding true epistemologies of the South, as an epistemological proposal, insurgent against the project of capitalist domination perpetrated by Modernity.