espanolEn esta presentacion voy a disertar sobre “Filosofias del Sur”. Todos nosotros sabemos que el Sur no es una mera categoria geografica; es ademas una categoria geopolitica, cultural. Hablar del Sur es hablar de las periferias y mas concretamente de periferias que quieren dejar de ser perifericas. No hay en ellas una especial actitud masoquista de ser perifericas, pues se trata de periferias que quieren tomar la palabra y ser protagonistas colectivamente de su accion, y eso requiere, entre otras cosas, que sea lo mas potente posible el vector del pensamiento, de la reflexion teorica, de la propuesta, de la critica… A traves de un amplio conjunto de disciplinas de diversos campos epistemicos y, como sabemos y ahora vamos a tener ocasion de comentar brevemente, a traves de nuevos enfoques como son los que se proponen cuando se habla de “epistemologias del Sur”, siguiendo a Boaventura de Sousa Santos y otros. Este es el marco en el que nos movemos y en el que voy a desplegar lo que quiero comunicar. EnglishIn this presentation I will be speaking about Philosophies of the South. We all know that the South is not just a geographical category; it is also a geopolitical, cultural category. To speak of the South is to speak of the peripheries and more specifically of peripheries that want to stop being peripheral. There is no special masochistic attitude of being peripheral in them, since they are peripheries that want to take the floor and be protagonists collectively of their action, and this requires, among other things, that the vector of thought, of theoretical reflection, of the proposal be as powerful as possible, of criticism... Through a wide range of disciplines from diverse epistemic fields and, as we know and will now have the opportunity to comment briefly, through new approaches such as those proposed when talking about epistemologies of the South, following Boaventura de Sousa Santos and others. This is the framework in which we are moving and in which I am going to unfold what I want to communicate.