Abstract

CARVALHO FERREIRA, Daniel  and  AGUIAR SIMIM, Thiago. Brazil: Between the Alternative Modernity and the Alternative to Modernity. Íconos [online]. 2017, n.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.

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

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