JOÃO MARIA ANDRÉ
Globalization, mestizajes, and intercultural dialogue.

This essay attempts to confront the "Globalization" problematic with the Latin American philosophy centred in the "Liberation Ethic". I start from a number of epistemological and anthropological premises needed for the understanding of multiculturalism, and then go on to define the present horizon of globalization and move on to discuss the concept of mestizaje. Taking as a starting point the concept of deep mestizaje I propose its articulation with the project of an inter-cultural dialogue, that transforms confrontation into meeting, and tolerance into hospitality of the other and in the other. Cultures become the habitation and the place of solidarity, of justice, and of the plural body of joy.