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Zero-Point Hubris - Science, Race, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Latin America (Paperback)
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Zero-Point Hubris - Science, Race, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Latin America (Paperback)
Series: Reinventing Critical Theory
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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.
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