A new and more concrete understanding of the inseparability of colonialism and modernity that also explores how the rhetoric of modernity disguises the logic of coloniality and how this rhetoric has been instrumental in establishing capitalism as the econ

About the Series ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Coloniality: The Darker Side of Western Modernity 1
Part One
1. The Roads to the Future: Rewesternization, Dewesternization, and Decoloniality 27
Part Two
2. I Am Where I Do: Remapping the Order of Knowing 77
3. It Is "Our" Modernity: Delinking, Independent Thought, and Decolonial Freedom 118
Part Three
4. (De)Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference 149
5. The Darker Side of Enlightenment: A Decolonial Reading of Kant's Geography 181
Part Four
6. The Zapatistas' Theoretical Revolution: Its Historical, Ethical, and Political Consequences 213
7. Cosmopolitan Localisms: Overcoming Colonial and Imperial Differences 252
Afterword. "Freedom to Choose" and the Decolonial Option: Notes toward Communal Futures 295
Notes 337
Bibliography 365
Index 389

Walter D. Mignolo is Director of the Institute for Global Studies in Humanities, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of The Idea of Latin America; Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking; and The Darker Side of The Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization and a co-editor of Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires.