This classic of postcolonial critical theory analyzes what is known as the "second colonization" and the resistance against it. Challenging conventional studies on colonial domination, the book examines the ideological process whose goal is the domination of the mind. This second colonization conceives of colonialism as a cultural battlefield between indigenous traditional forms of knowledge and the universalist character of Western modernity. A more complex and determining phenomenon than physical colonization, because it survives empires, internalized in the way of thinking, values ​​and visions of post-colonial society. The work illustrates this process of psychological colonization by studying the case of India through figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling or George Orwell.
This edition opens the door for readers in Spanish to one of the most original contemporary thinkers through a work, published for the first time in 1983, which condenses his main ideas and theories. A fundamental text for anyone interested in colonialism, social psychology and cultural criticism.