The idea of Postmodernity continues to be Eurocentric. Using a world vision, the intercultural project proposes to examine the elements of the great cultures that were not dominated by modernity, but instead were excluded as being of no value. Thus China, India, Southeast Asia, the Arab world, Bantu Africa and Latin America, by developing the potentiality of their own cultures in dialogue with modernity, implement an innovative development towards a pluriverse that surpasses the limits of modernity itself. This process, which also involves a South-to-South intercultural dialogue, is called Transmodernity.

Enrique Dussel is Professor of Ethics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana/Iztapalapa and at UNAM (Mexico) as well as being Coordinator of the Association of Philosophy and Liberation (AFYL). His main fields of study are Ethics and Political Philosophy; works include Para una ética de la liberación latinoamericana (Siglo XXI-USTA, Buenos Aires-Bogota, 1973-1980); Filosofía de la Liberación (Edicol, Mexico, 1977); México, 1990; 1492: El encubrimiento del Otro (Nueva Utopía, Madrid, 1992); Ética de la Liberación en la edad de la Globalización y de la Exclusión (Trotta-UAM.I-UNAM, Mexico, 1998); Política de la Liberación: Historia mundial y crítica (Trotta, 2007); and, together with K.O. Apel, Ética del discurso y ética de la liberación (Trotta, Madrid, 2005).

Presented by Manuel Cruz, Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Barcelona.

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