THE INVENTION OF THE AMERICAS
Eclipse of "the other" and the
Myth of Modernity
Enrique Dussel
(translated by Michel D. Barber)

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The invention of the Americas
Eclipse of "the other" and the
Myth of Modernity
Enrique Dussel
(translated by Michel D. Barber)
 
1995

Contents
 
Translator's Acknowledgements
 
Preface
 
PART ONE
From the European Ego: The Covering Over
 
Chapter 1: Eurocentrism
 
Chapter 2: From the Invention to the Discovery of the New World
 
Chapter 3: From the Conquest to the Colonization of the Life- World
 
Chapter 4: The Spiritual Conquest: Toward the Encounter between Two Worlds?
 
PART TWO
Transition: The Copernican Revolution of the Hermeneutic Key
 
Chapter 5: Critique of the Myth of Modernity
 
Chapter 6: Amerindia in a Non-Eurocentric Vision of World History
 
PART THREE
From the Invasion to the Dis-covery of the Other
 
Chapter 7: From the Parousia of the Gods to the Invasion
 
Chapter 8: From the Resistance to the End of the World and the Sixth Sun
 
Epilogue
The Multiple Visages of the One People and
the Sixth Sun
 
[Appendix 1 and 2]
Appendix 1: Diverse Meanings of the Terms Europe,
The Occident, Modernity, Late Capitalism
Appendix 2: Two Paradigms of Modernity 
[Appendix 3 and 4]
Appendix 3: From the Discovery of the Atlantic to 1502
Appendix 4: Map of the Fourth Asiatic Peninsula
of Henry Martellus (Florence 1489)
 
Notes
 
Chronology
 
Index
 


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