Eurocentrism, social sciences and transmodernity

Abstract

The article analyzes the relationships between eurocentrism, epistemic prejudices of racial superiority and social sciences from a decolonial Latin American perspective. Some examples taken from philosophy and social sciences will be analyzed by assuming epistemically that the hegelian history of thought comes from the East and culminates in the West. For this eurocentric perspective, African culture does not exist and America is the future. They ignore that African and Amerindian civilizations have the same chronological and cultural value as the East. These eurocentric and racist ideas of the social sciences that constituted the Amerindians and Africans as the other in Europe will be questioned throughout this work. In the end, it is proposed to overcome these eurocentric myths from the theoretical proposal of transmodernity as a world dialogue of knowledge.