Abstract

In this seminar, it will be discussed how the postcolonial and decolonial discourse has been received in Europe. From the experience of unrest that this discourse has caused among European intellectuals, we will think about the elements questioned by this discourse.

The analysis will focus on two aspects: the matter of capitalism and the matter of historical time. Regarding the first aspect, I will take into account the epistemic turn operated by modern philosophy and its defence of the human reasoning universalism; regarding the second aspect, I will focus on Chakrabarty's criticism of historical time within the European-Imperial matrix. Some provisional conclusions will be presented based on the criticisms coming from 'other' feminisms which force us to "provincialize" Europe.

    
Short biography

Montserrat Galcerán Huguet is Professor of philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she is co-coordinator of the Research Group "Globalization and social movements", co-editor of the e-journal Youkal and member of the "Nomad University". She was also Visiting Professor at several universities: Bremen y Bochum, Berlin, Amsterdam, Urbino, Paris, Berkeley. Currently, she is working on the criticism of Eurocentrism within the decolonial and postcolonial thought. Main publications: La invención del marxismo (Madrid: Iepala, 1997); Innovación tecnológica y sociedad de masas (with M. Domínguez Sanchez-Pinilla, Madrid: Síntesis, 1997); Silencio y olvido. El pensar de Heidegger durante los años treinta (Hondarribia: Hiru, 2005); Deseo [y] libertad (Madrid: Traficantes de sueños, 2009); Spinoza contemporáneo (com Espinoza Pino, M.; Madrid: Tierradenadie, 2009). She has several papers published in journals: Europäische Enzyklopädie zu  Philosophie und Wissenschaften (1990), Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus (1998 y 2007) e  Actuel Marx; as well as in Castilian journals: Logos, Archipiélago, Nómadas (Colombia), among others.