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The Invention of Humboldt - On the Geopolitics of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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The Invention of Humboldt - On the Geopolitics of Knowledge (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Global Latin America
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The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by
leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths
about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than 'follow in
Humboldt's footsteps,' this book outlines the new critical horizon
of post-Humboldtian Humboldt studies: the archaeology of all that
lies buried under the Baron's epistemological footprint. Contrary
to the popular image of Humboldt as a solitary 'adventurer' and
'hero of science' surrounded by New World nature, The Invention of
Humboldt demonstrates that the Baron's opus and practice was
largely derivative of the knowledge communities and archives of the
Hispanic world. Although Humboldtian writing has invented a
powerful cult that has served to erase the sources of his knowledge
and practice, in truth Humboldt did not 'invent nature,' nor did he
pioneer global science: he was the beneficiary of Iberian natural
science and globalization. Nor was Humboldt a pioneering,
'postcolonial' cultural relativist. Instead, his anthropological
views of the Americas were Orientalist and historicist and, in most
ways, were less enlightened than those of his Creole
contemporaries. This book will reshape the landscape of Humboldt
scholarship. It is essential reading for all those interested in
Alexander von Humboldt, the Hispanic American enlightenment, and
the global history of science and knowledge.
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