Hermeneutics at stake, cultural identities and Latinamerican thought on integration

Abstract

From a discursive and practical hermeneutics, this article deepens and  matures theoretically several epistemic and historical analysis about the plural identity in  Latinamerican thought of these last decades.  In a framework dominated by the  “post” shift that characterizes social sciences, a line of investigation which recovers important categories and distinctions -sprouted in theories of Latin-American thinkers- is purssued, in order to show the socio-political ambiguity of the current plural and intercultural shift of identity.  Criticizing weaknesses in the ideas of some authors, a tension is reconstructed between contextuality and universality which assumes topoi or intra-Latinamerican places of enunciation, that go beyond the diluted topics of a certain postmodernistic thinking more connected to northamerican and european contexts.  From there some main topics are discovered in order to renew an intercultural interpretation of a real latinamerican character of cultural identity.