Abstract

We go through some productions of Latin American critical thinking, of which Salas Astraín participates, in dialogue with other authors. Among the categories that constitute a common reflective concern, we mention: recognition, dignity, daily life as a sphere of concrete and historical subjects. We emphasize in Salas Astraín its concern for the category of the world of life, the central axis of its reflection, considering Latin American critical hermeneutics as a way of interpreting the conceptions of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples. Her proposal of complementation of hermeneutics thus understood with pragmatics opens a fertile field for interpretation and intercultural dialogue.