Castro-Gómez 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.
Castro-Gómez 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Santiago Castro-Gómez is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Santo Tomás and the University Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. He has taught as Visiting Professor at Duke University and Pittsburgh University in the United States and the University of Frankfurt, Germany. His first book, Critique of Latin American Reason (1996) is now a classic text of Latin American philosophy. His many other publications include La hybris del punto cero (2005), Tejidos oníricos (2009), History of Governmentality, Volumes I & II (2010 & 2016) and Revolutions without Subject (2015).
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Translator's Introduction 1. Places of Enlightenment: Colonial Discourse and Geopolitics of Knowledge in the Century of Enlightenment 2. Purus ab omnia macula sanguinis: The colonial imaginary of whiteness in New Granada 3. Imperial Biopolitics: Health and sickness in the framework of Bourbonic reforms 4. Illegitimate Knowledges: The Enlightenment as mechanism of epistemic expropriation 5. Striated Spaces: Geography, territorial politics, and population control Epilogue Appendix (to the 2nd edition) Bibliography Index
Translator's Introduction 1. Places of Enlightenment: Colonial Discourse and Geopolitics of Knowledge in the Century of Enlightenment 2. Purus ab omnia macula sanguinis: The colonial imaginary of whiteness in New Granada 3. Imperial Biopolitics: Health and sickness in the framework of Bourbonic reforms 4. Illegitimate Knowledges: The Enlightenment as mechanism of epistemic expropriation 5. Striated Spaces: Geography, territorial politics, and population control Epilogue Appendix (to the 2nd edition) Bibliography Index
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