The Invention of the Other: Genealogy of an Educational Mindset

These reflections seek to highlight the mechanisms that led to the struc- ture of the idea of Otherness in relation to the European culture of identity and, consequently, to the configuration of a certain educational mentality. The epistemological horizon refers to hermeneutics as its methodology. The approach is interdisciplinary, as the content draws not only on peda- gogical essays, but also on historical and archival, philosophical, and liter- ary sources to arrive at epistemic-educational considerations. The theoreti- cal horizon is part of the tradition of de-colonial studies (De Sousa Santos, 2009; Id., 2021b).