Cognitive Justice in a Global World

Prudent Knowledges for a Decent Life
Herausgeber: de Sousa Santos, Boaventura

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Produktbeschreibung

The book's main argument is that global social injustice is by and large epistemological injustice. It maintains that there can be no global social justice without global cognitive justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 899g
• ISBN-13: 9780739121948
• ISBN-10: 0739121944
• Artikelnr.: 22885030

Autorenporträt

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is professor of sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal) and distinguished legal scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface: How Reason Lost its Balance Part 2 Introduction: A
Discourse on the Sciences Part 3 Neither Truce Nor Surrender: Are the
Science Wars Over? Chapter 4 Pathways to Cosmopolitan Knowledge Chapter 5
Whither the "Two Cultures": Another Volley in the "Science Wars" Chapter 6
On Wars and Revolutions Chapter 7 Scientific Authority and the
Post-Euclidean Revolution in Mathematics Chapter 8 The Structures of
Knowledge, or How Many Ways May We Know Chapter 9 Becoming Civilized:
Beyond the Great Divide Chapter 10 The Self, Psychoanalysis and
Epistemology Part 11 Complex, Creative and Situated Interrogations: Science
in Action Chapter 12 Science and Human Well-Being: Toward a New Way of
Structuring Scientific Activity Chapter 13 E.P. Wigner and the Foundation
of Quantum Physics Chapter 14 The Rhetoric of Science in Darwin'sOn the
Origin of Species Chapter 15 On the Borders: Science as it is done Part 16
Global Cognitive Justice: Reconstructing Knowledges and World Making
Chapter 17 Actors, Networks and New Knowledge Producers: Social Movements
and the Paradigmatic Transition in the Sciences Chapter 18 Reconstructing
Unruly Ecological Complexity: Science, Interpretation and Critical,
Reflective Practice Chapter 19 The Demise of Critical Theory in Economics
Chapter 20 Between Cosmology and System: The Heuristics of a Dissenting
Imagination Chapter 21 Subjects or Objects of Knowledge? International
Consultancy and the production of knowledge in Mozambique Chapter 22 The
Splendors and Miseries of "Science": Coloniality, Geopolitics of Knowledge
and Epistemic Pluri-Versality Chapter 23 Beyond Eurocentrism: Systematic
Knowledge in a Tropical Context: A Manifesto Chapter 24 From an
Epistemology of Blindness to an Epistemology of Seeing