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JORQUERA, ALICIA. Latin America sciences. critical notes on the narrative of our knowledge . Saber [online]. 2016, vol.28, n.2, pp.320-329. ISSN 2343-6468.

In this article the topics of the narrative and history of the sciences in Latin America are exposed from the globally space of the universal history of the knowledge, between the modernity and the present time. In this wide context, the understanding of his tory is seen as effectual history marking the marginality imposed by the positivist paradigm and eurocentrism over the original knowledge from Latin America. An analytical vision of these topics is included and its relationship to the development of the scientist as author, thinker and writer of knowledge, in order to deconstructing the modern condition that imposes a restrictive image of the relations between the worlds of the myth, the art and science. For this hermeneutic interpretation it has been consi dered the philosophy coming of the construct modernity/coloniality to address are signification of knowledge excluded by the postcolonial reason. Noting the importance of the work of Enrique Dussel and other philosophers of today. This socio/historical marginalization is denoted as a unique opportunity to reflect on the role of multicultural convergence and philosophical body of the colonized America to reset the place of the original knowledge in geopolitics and universal history.

Palavras-chave : Eeurocentrism; original knowledge; modernity/colonialism.