Repensar lo humano: Aproximaciones post-dualistas a la obra de Gamaliel Churata

In the genealogy of a Latin American critical thought, the validity of the work of the Peruvian writer Gamaliel Churata (1897-1969) acquires a prophetic meaning with respect to the contemporary debate. Here it can be notice, in response to current biotechnological and ontoepistemological changes, the requirement to redefine the notion of human. The author’s work calls into question modern naturalism, claiming a symmetrical comparison with the indigenous Andean ontologies and challenging our dualistic certainties. This article starts from the reflection on the notion of humanity proposed by Gamaliel Churata, to show how the author manages to question the dualisms selfalterity, civilization-barbarism, nature-culture, human-non-human. Gamaliel Churata forces us to rethink the human future in defense of possible worlds by proposing, and this is the hypothesis, the idea that we have always been post-human. The demand for a “post” does not necessarily imply going beyond humanity, but to understand what has been omitted from the anthropocentric and ethnocentric vision of reality.