{"product_id":"the-darker-side-of-western-modernity-9780822350606","title":"The Darker Side of Western Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalter D. Mignolo analyzes the \"colonial logic\" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through neoliberalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is dense, but refreshing and ultimately uplifting. Walter Mignolo’s visionary ideas about the decline and fall of (Western) modernity and hence leadership should be on the syllabus in schools, let alone higher education institutions.” - EC, \u003ci\u003eThe Latin American Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Such a rich and ambitious book, apparently unafraid of taking risks, will prove controversial for it messes with many a wasp’s nest. The Darker Side of Western Modernity is recommended reading for those in search of a challenge rather than a confirmation.” - Sara Castro-Klaren, \u003ci\u003eModern Language Notes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“...the book is elegantly written, even poetic or lyrical at times...I have always appreciated Mignolo’s ability to refine and rework his ideas, and this book seems to be the best example of such evolutionary thinking yet.” - Darrel Allan Wanzer, \u003ci\u003eCultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Darker Side of Western Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant, visionary, and hopeful text. More than just revealing the logic and strategy at work in the ‘darker side of Western modernity,’ this book makes evident and gives life to decolonial delinking and thought. Walter D. Mignolo’s eye is toward emergent processes and projects of political-epistemic resistance, disobedience, and transformation that give sustenance, reason, and concretion to the prospect and anticipation of other possible worlds. Through these processes and projects, Mignolo remaps the order of knowing, reading, and doing, while also indicating paths and perspectives for significantly different communal futures.”—\u003cb\u003eCatherine E. Walsh\u003c\/b\u003e, Director, Doctoral Program in Latin American Cultural Studies, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador\u003cbr\u003e“Walter D. Mignolo is one of our leading theorists of coloniality\/modernity and decolonial thinking. With this superb book, the third in an ‘unintended trilogy’ exploring the nature and limits of modern social thought, Mignolo continues his ambition to ‘break the Western code’ embodied in its rhetoric of modernity and logic of coloniality. This volume brings to light a darker side of the project of modernity, the oppressive relations that were at its heart, and offers decolonial options for the building of communal futures different from our pasts. It is necessary reading for all those interested in the emancipatory potential of social theory for dealing with the challenges of the twenty-first century.”—\u003cb\u003eGurminder K. Bhambra\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eRethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is dense, but refreshing and ultimately uplifting. Walter Mignolo’s visionary ideas about the decline and fall of (Western) modernity and hence leadership should be on the syllabus in schools, let alone higher education institutions.” * Latin American Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Series ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface and Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Coloniality: The Darker Side of Western Modernity 1\u003cbr\u003e Part One \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Roads to the Future: Rewesternization, Dewesternization, and Decoloniality 27\u003cbr\u003e Part Two \u003cbr\u003e 2. I Am Where I Do: Remapping the Order of Knowing 77\u003cbr\u003e 3. It Is \"Our\" Modernity: Delinking, Independent Thought, and Decolonial Freedom 118\u003cbr\u003e Part Three \u003cbr\u003e 4. (De)Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference 149\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Darker Side of Enlightenment: A Decolonial Reading of Kant's \u003ci\u003eGeography\u003c\/i\u003e 181\u003cbr\u003e Part Four \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Zapatistas' Theoretical Revolution: Its Historical, Ethical, and Political Consequences 213\u003cbr\u003e 7. Cosmopolitan Localisms: Overcoming Colonial and Imperial Differences 252\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. \"Freedom to Choose\" and the Decolonial Option: Notes toward Communal Futures 295\u003cbr\u003e Notes 337\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 365\u003cbr\u003e Index 389","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768192631127,"sku":"9780822350606","price":1276.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822350606.jpg?v=1758716782","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-darker-side-of-western-modernity-9780822350606","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}