Amauta place in the genealogy from the perspective of analysis of the decolonization of knowledge

Abstract

The intellectual and political project of the Amauta magazine question the Eurocentric perspective of knowledge in the sciences and the humanities during the 1920s due to the hegemony of thought of the “generation of the twentieth century”. Amauta sought to express the new spirit that arose in the “new generation” of intellectuals and artists who had a common task: “their willingness to create a new Peru in the new world”. This aim involved a new way of posing problems and to understand the peruvian issues whose central axis was an analytical perspective which has been dividing the logos and the myth, the eurocentrism. In this paper explores some of the epistemological orientations that point out Amauta, still in an embryonic way, but significantly and consistently toward the perspective of the coloniality of knowledge.