The invention of the Americas

Translator's Acknowledgements...7

Preface...9 [pp.9-14]

PART ONE [pp.17-26]
From the European Ego: The Covering Over ?...17

Chapter 1: Eurocentrism...19
Chapter 2: From the Invention to the Discovery of the New World...27 [pp.27-36]
Chapter 3: From the Conquest to the Colonization of the Life- World...37 [pp.37-48]
Chapter 4 : The Spiritual Conquest: Toward the Encounter between Two Worlds?...49 [pp.49-57]

PART TWO [pp.61-72]
Transition: The Copernican Revolution of the Hermeneutic Key...61

Chapter 5: Critique of the Myth of Modernity...63
Chapter 6: Amerindia in a Non-Eurocentric Vision of World History...73 [pp.73-90]

PART THREE [pp.93-105]
From the Invasion to the Dis-covery of the Other...93

Chapter 7: From the Parousia of the Gods to the Invasion...95
Chapter 8: From the Resistance to the End of the World and the Sixth Sun...106 [pp.106-117]

Epilogue: The Multiple Visages of the One People and the Sixth Sun...119 [pp.119-132]

Appendix 1: Diverse Meanings of the Terms Europe, The Occident, Modernity, Late Capitalism...133 [pp.133-140]
Appendix 2: Two Paradigms of Modernity...136
Appendix 3: From the Discovery of the Atlantic to 1502...141 [pp.141-143]
Appendix 4: Map of the Fourth Asiatic Peninsula of Henry Martellus (Florence 1489)...142

Chronology...211 [pp.211-213]