About the Series ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xi

Introduction. Coloniality: The Darker Side of Western Modernity 1

Part One

1. The Roads to the Future: Rewesternization, Dewesternization, and Decoloniality 27

Part Two

2. I Am Where I Do: Remapping the Order of Knowing 77

3. It Is "Our" Modernity: Delinking, Independent Thought, and Decolonial Freedom 118

Part Three

4. (De)Coloniality at Large: Time and the Colonial Difference 149

5. The Darker Side of Enlightenment: A Decolonial Reading of Kant's Geography 181

Part Four

6. The Zapatistas' Theoretical Revolution: Its Historical, Ethical, and Political Consequences 213

7. Cosmopolitan Localisms: Overcoming Colonial and Imperial Differences 252

Afterword. "Freedom to Choose" and the Decolonial Option: Notes toward Communal Futures 295

Notes 337

Bibliography 365

Index 389

“It is dense, but refreshing and ultimately uplifting. Walter Mignolo’s visionary ideas about the decline and fall of (Western) modernity and hence leadership should be on the syllabus in schools, let alone higher education institutions.” — The Latin American Review of Books

"[I]n this provocative book, Mignolo delivers a complex analysis of the modernity/coloniality couple and of how it unfolded from the sixteenth century until today.”  — Cecilia Tossounian, Bulletin of Latin American Research

“It is dense, but refreshing and ultimately uplifting. Walter Mignolo’s visionary ideas about the decline and fall of (Western) modernity and hence leadership should be on the syllabus in schools, let alone higher education institutions.” —The Latin American Review of Books

"[I]n this provocative book, Mignolo delivers a complex analysis of the modernity/coloniality couple and of how it unfolded from the sixteenth century until today.”  —Cecilia Tossounian, Bulletin of Latin American Research

“The Darker Side of Western Modernity is a significant, visionary, and hopeful text. More than just revealing the logic and strategy at work in the ‘darker side of Western modernity,’ this book makes evident and gives life to decolonial delinking and thought. Walter D. Mignolo’s eye is toward emergent processes and projects of political-epistemic resistance, disobedience, and transformation that give sustenance, reason, and concretion to the prospect and anticipation of other possible worlds. Through these processes and projects, Mignolo remaps the order of knowing, reading, and doing, while also indicating paths and perspectives for significantly different communal futures.” — Catherine E. Walsh, Director, Doctoral Program in Latin American Cultural Studies, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador

“Walter D. Mignolo is one of our leading theorists of coloniality/modernity and decolonial thinking. With this superb book, the third in an ‘unintended trilogy’ exploring the nature and limits of modern social thought, Mignolo continues his ambition to ‘break the Western code’ embodied in its rhetoric of modernity and logic of coloniality. This volume brings to light a darker side of the project of modernity, the oppressive relations that were at its heart, and offers decolonial options for the building of communal futures different from our pasts. It is necessary reading for all those interested in the emancipatory potential of social theory for dealing with the challenges of the twenty-first century.” — Gurminder K. Bhambra, author of, Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

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