CARVALHO FERREIRA, Daniel    AGUIAR SIMIM, Thiago. Brazil: Between the Alternative Modernity and the Alternative to Modernity. []. , 57, pp.79-93. ISSN 1390-8065.  https://doi.org/10.17141/iconos.57.2017.2256.

This article analyzes the critique of modernity in Latin American social thought from two conceptions: Walter Mignolo’s position in the modernity/coloniality group, and the critique of the Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza to readings about non-modernity in Brazil. The critique of these two perspectives sheds light on the particular position of Brazil: on one hand, its situation can be analyzed from the broad perspective of Latin America; or on the contrary, the country presents peculiarities that make difficult the task of making a simple overview. The nodal point between these interpretations is in the conception of peripheral and alternative modernity (or modernization), and in the role that this concept plays in both theories.

: Latin-American thought; Walter Mignolo; Jessé Souza; Brazil; modernity; coloniality.

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