This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
Author(s): Boaventura De Sousa Santos
Series: Epistemologies Of The South
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge | Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 285
Tags: Knowledge, Sociology Of; Social Epistemology; Social Justice: Developing Countries
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Manifesto for Good Living
Minifesto for Intellectual-Activists
Introduction Creating a Distance in Relation to Western-centric Political Imagination and Critical Theory
Strong Questions and Weak Answers
The End of Capitalism without End
The End of Colonialism without End
The Paradox of Urgency and Civilizational Change
Very Old or Very New? The Example of the Yasuní Project
The Loss of Critical Nouns
The Ghostly Relation between Theory and Practice
Conclusion
Part One Centrifugal Modernities and Subaltern Wests: Degrees of Separation
Chapter 1 Nuestra America: Postcolonial Identities and Mestizajes
The European American Century and the Rise of Societal Fascism
The Nuestra America Century
The Founding Ideas of Nuestra America
The Baroque Ethos: Prolegomena for an Insurgent Cosmopolitan Politics and Culture
The Limits of Nuestra America
Counterhegemonic Possibilities for the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion: Which Side Are You On, Ariel?
Chapter 2 Another Angelus Novus: Beyond the Modern Game of Roots and Options
Introduction
The Past in a Cage
The Parable of the Angelus Novus
Roots and Options
The End of the Equation
A Future for the Past
Destabilizing Subjectivities
Chapter 3 Is There a Non-Occidentalist West?
Philosophy for Sale
Learned Ignorance
The Wager
Conclusion
Part Two Toward Epistemologies of the South: Against the Waste of Experience
Chapter 4 Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges
The Abyssal Divide between Regulation/Emancipation and Appropriation/Violence
Conclusion: Toward Postabyssal Thinking
Chapter 5 Toward an Epistemology of Blindness: Why the New Forms of “Ceremonial Adequacy” neither Regulate nor Emancipate
Introduction
Knowledge-as-Regulation and Knowledge-as-Emancipation
The Representation of Limits
The Determination of Relevance
The Determination of Degrees of Relevance
The Determination of Identification
The Impossibility of Duration
The Determination of Interpretation and Evaluation
From the Epistemology of Blindness to the Epistemology of Seeing
Toward an Epistemology of Seeing
Conclusion
Chapter 6 A Critique of Lazy Reason: Against the Waste of Experience and Toward the Sociology of Absences and the Sociology of Emergences
Introduction
The Critique of Metonymic Reason
The Critique of Proleptic Reason
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Ecologies of Knowledges
The Ecology of Knowledges and the Inexhaustible Diversity of World Experience
Modern Science as Part of an Ecology of Knowledges
External Plurality: The Ecology of Knowledges
Relativizing the Distinction between the Internal and External Plurality of Knowledges: The Case of African Philosophy
The Ecology of Knowledges, Hierarchy, and Pragmatics
Orientations for Prudent Knowledge
Chapter 8 Intercultural Translation: Differing and Sharing con Passionalità
On Intercultural Translation as a Living Translation
Learning from the South through Intercultural Translation
Conditions and Procedures of Translation
Conclusion
References
Index
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