Provoked to reflect on the relevance of Theodor W. Adorno's Critical Theory today, this paper proposes an approach to Latin American Decolonial Theory. Although Adorno did not specifically address this topic, his thought is recognized as fruitful for emphasizing the ambiguities of historical processes in European modernity and their relationship with social domination. We draw on the writings of Aníbal Quijano, Santiago Castro-Gómez Walter Mignolo and Enrique Dussel to outline the central premis…
Read moreProvoked to reflect on the relevance of Theodor W. Adorno's Critical Theory today, this paper proposes an approach to Latin American Decolonial Theory. Although Adorno did not specifically address this topic, his thought is recognized as fruitful for emphasizing the ambiguities of historical processes in European modernity and their relationship with social domination. We draw on the writings of Aníbal Quijano, Santiago Castro-Gómez Walter Mignolo and Enrique Dussel to outline the central premises of decoloniality and explore their convergences with Adorno's Critical Theory, not only concerning a certain violence of the concept but also regarding the need to recognize the non-identical, fundamental themes in the Negative Dialectics (1966). The author proposes a decolonial reading of negative dialectics, emphasizing its sense of diversity.
