Zero-Point Hubris - Science, Race, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Latin America (Paperback)

Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the violence exercised by European colonialism was not only physical and economic, but also 'epistemic'. Santiago Castro-Gomez argues that toward the end of the 18th century, this epistemic violence of the Spanish Empire assumed a specific form: zero-point hubris. The 'many forms of knowing' were integrated into a chronological hierarchy in which scientific-enlightened knowledge appears at the highest point on the cognitive scale, while all other epistemes are seen as constituting its past. Enlightened criollo thinkers did not hesitate to situate the blacks, Indians, and mestizos of New Granada in the lowest position on this cognitive scale. Castro-Gomez argues that in the colonial periphery of the Spanish Americas, Enlightenment constituted not only the position of epistemic distance separating science from all other knowledges, but also the position of ethnic distance separating the criollos from the 'castes'. Epistemic violence-and not only physical violence-is thereby found at the very origin of Colombian nationality.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Reinventing Critical Theory
Release date:	December 2021
Authors:	Santiago Castro-gomez
Translators:	George Ciccariello-Maher • Don T. Deere
Dimensions:	219 x 154 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	330
ISBN-13:	978-1-78661-377-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-78661-377-8
Barcode:	9781786613776

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