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GANDARILLA SALGADO, José Guadalupe. Sobre los orígenes de eso que llamamos modernidad: un mar de discusión. Rev. Umbr. Cs. Soc. [online]. 2012, n.24, pp. 55-83. ISSN 1994-4543.

As a gaze posing on the sixteenth-century Atlantic, not just as a commercial route but, rather, as its construction of the time-space of modernity, this article indicates how the very first spread out of modern capitalism took place in this opening-up area, and when the North-European modernity emerged as such. It was until the decline of the Imperial China at the nineteenth century that Europe became the undisputed hegemony of the world. In a parallel way, at the same 16th Century, along with the emergence of America, the Hispanic and Lusitanian political philosophy carne up. The article proposes that the diffraction that the Caribbean Sea undergoes means that it is the germinal seed for another modernity, without coloniality

Palavras-chave : Utopia; Atlantic aperture; early modernity; decolonial reason; modernity/coloniality.