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ESCHENHAGEN, María Luisa. Challenges to think springing from life in the social sciences. Polis [online]. 2015, vol.14, n.41, pp.111-125. ISSN 0718-6568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-65682015000200008.

This paper aims to reveal the blindness of the social sciences towards dealing with the world’s environmental problems, which appear irrefutable and undeniable today.This blindness is evident for example in the relative absence of environmental issues at the time of proposing darings/challenges from and to the social sciences, as a result of epistemic bases that prevent thinking from life and understand environmental complexity. Therefore the article proposes three inputs, which are coloniality/modernity, complexity and environmental thinking, to think out from life, as do the sumakkawsay and Buddhism to approach an understanding of environmental complexity.

Palabras clave : social sciences; modernity/coloniality; environmental thinking; complexity; sumakkawsay; Buddhism.

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