La Filosofía del Zaguán: Hacia una Ontología Liminal y una Epistemología del Umbral en el Pensamiento Latinoamericano Contemporáneo

This essay posits the "Philosophy of the Zaguán" as a conceptual framework for contemporary Latin American thought, proposing a dialectical overcoming of the denunciatory phases characteristic of Liberation Philosophy and Decolonial Studies. It is argued that the Latin American ontological condition can be defined as a "Being-in-the-Zaguán," a constitutive form of existence within the liminal threshold between the self and the other. From this ontology, a necessary epistemological inference is derived: the "Threshold Knowledge" (Saber de Umbral). This mode of knowing—analyzed through its principles of methodological mestizaje (sentipensar), situated corporeality, and a hermeneutics of critical hospitality— is presented as a rigorous and original paradigm for producing knowledge from and for the region, in dialogue with the world. The analysis is grounded in an articulated re-reading of Rodolfo Kusch, Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, Gloria Anzaldúa, Orlando Fals Borda, and Édouard Glissant.