Is the dilemma between social commitment and commitment to knowledge inevitable for intellectuals? This paper, based on the thought of Leopoldo Zea, and through a hermeneutical, analytical-conceptual, critical-evaluative, and theoretical-constructive method, argues that these commitments are not only compatible, but also implicate each other. To argue this point, it elaborates a conceptualization of the figure of intellectuals and his social commitment, according to which it is proper to them to articulate his theoretical activity to ethical and political transtheoretical activity, while (...) preserving the autonomy of theoretical activity and seeking universal knowledge. The article has a double importance: on the one hand, it makes a reformulation of the valid ideas of Zea in this regard; on the other hand, it offers a scheme with a claim of general validity regarding a now as ever urgent social problem: intellectuals’ social commitment and his commitment to knowledge. (shrink)

En el presente trabajo intentaremos abordar una problemática crucial para todos aquellos pensamientos latinoamericanos que han pretendido escapar de las lógicas discursivas coloniales y eurocéntricas. Tomando como base las tesis del filósofo colombiano Santiago Castro-Gómez, trazadas en su obra Crítica de la razón latinoamericana, argumentaremos que no se puede combatir la colonialidad eurocéntrica que todavía subyuga a América Latina empleando el mismo lenguaje y las mismas construcciones discursivas a través de las cuales se articuló y materializó ese dominio. Porque, utilizando (...) estos elementos, permaneceríamos anclados o encerrados en la narrativa hegemónica que Occidente utilizó, precisamente, para dominar a otros pueblos. (shrink)