Philosophical Foundations of the Coloniality of Knowledge and the Possibilities of Epistemic Liberation: Decolonial Analyses by Aníbal Quijano and Walter Mignolo - Michał Zalewski (Autor) (2026)
10.7311/20811152.2026.131.04
https://amerykalacinska.com/article/557058/pl
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The article presents analyses by Aníbal Quijano and Walter Mignolo on the epistemic dimension of colonial violence. Utilising the foundational distinction between colonialism and coloniality - and, by analogy, decolonialism and decoloniality - the thesis posits that the coloniality of knowledge serves as the underlying principle driving the pro-cesses of European territorial expansionism since the late fifteenth century. It focuses on three fundamental assumptions/concepts in the Western philosophical tradition: the universality and common validity of theoretical findings, the distinction between the subject and the object of cognition, and the classical ontological paradigm, which attributes cognition to objective reality. The study demonstrates how these assumptions function as the preconditions for the epistemic domination exerted by Europe over its conquered territories. The subsequent section presents Quijano and Mignolo’s proposal to decolonise the eurocentered cognitive perspective and construct a new epistemic order based on hermeneutic pluralism and cognitive equality.
Keywords: filozofia