The Kantian autonomy and the plot of exclusion: analysis of the Brazilian social-historical conditions generated by the colonizing process

Abstract

This article considers the Kantian concept of autonomy, from modernity to post-modernity period, and how far it is from the colonization process. By a social-historical analysis, based on what was called exclusion plot, we demonstrated how far the concept of autonomy is from the living conditions of the Brazilian population, generated by five centuries of exclusion. The maintenance of a dominant and distant recursiveness through the focus of sciences and technologies developments has obfuscated the effects of the colonizing process, unfolded into new forms of exclusion. Thus, it was concluded whereas the social-historical conditions of the plot exclusion maintenance are uncovered, the encounter between hegemonic epistemologies and narratives of excluded populations, yet immeasurable, will foster new directions to the human vulnerability comprehension.