Modernity since the critical view of the Decolonial Option. Particularities adopted by that process at the colonial Cuba

Abstract

This work pretends a re-evaluation of Modernity at the colonial Cuba, since the conceptions of the historical-philosophical trend appointed Decolonial Option. The scientific problem that justifies this analysis, is the perception that the studies of and the pedagogical approach to that global sociohistorical process, continue influenced by the traditional eurocentric point of view, phenomenon related to the staunchness achieved by the Soviet-biased historical materialism in our academical environment; and that guideline also influences the treatment of the national history. The objective of the text, thus, is to propose an alternative way to appreciate the Cuban historical movement since the 16th through the 19 th centuries, which turns around conceptual knots as the myth of the eurocentric and ethnocentric Modernity, the diversity of modernities, the Otherness and the Trans-modernity. The fulfillment of such an objective, would produce as results an analysis of the particularities of the Modernity at the colonial Cuba and a synthesis materialized in its conceptualization. The methods privileged at this exercise, have been that of the relationship of the logic and the historic, which includes the diachronic and synchronic foci in the analysis of the process; and the hermeneutic, which enables the interpretation of the text, the contents and the speeches of the bibliographical sources consulted. As a way of conclusions, the theoretical-conceptual corps which make up the decolonial thought, its application to the Cuban colonial Modernity to elucidate its particularities, and a synthesis of these ones materialized in the conceptualization of the phenomenon, will be succintly exposed.
Keywords: Modernity, Decolonial Option, colonial Cuba