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work_pjg2q3lvwvaand6sc4owzq56ly	E. DUSSEL	"Being-in-the-World-Hispanically": A World on the "Border" of Many Worlds	2009	20	.pdf	application/pdf	9939	557	57	The abbreviated world-history of the hispano presented by Enrique Dussel in the imposed as a global design upon the rest of the world, Dussel argues for a multiplicity of decolonizing critical responses to Eurocentric modernity from heretofore peripheral cultures and peoples around the world. Given Dussel's modal analysis, I translate ser-hispano in the essay's title as "being-in-the-world-hispanically." The italics The hispano, like every human being, lives (ex-ists) inevitably in a "world." His/her "being-in-theworld" has a "world" that has subsumed "many" worlds whose histories are not chronologically simultaneous but have instead unfolded with different rhythms and in diverse places, developing distinct these historical-cultural realities have a long, rich, and often hotly contested history, and this is what Dussel means when he writes that the "world" in which hispanos dwell is one that has "subsumed 'many' worlds." The process is neither linear Hispanos must know and appreciate the Amerindian world, not only the existence of nomadic communities (from the north of the United States down to the 	./cache/work_pjg2q3lvwvaand6sc4owzq56ly.pdf	./txt/work_pjg2q3lvwvaand6sc4owzq56ly.txt