Seth, Sanjay. 2011. Crítica de la razón (moderna, Occidental) impura A critique of impure (modern, Western) reason. Tabula Rasa, 14, pp. 31-54. ISSN 1794-2489 [Article]

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This paper asks a series of very direct, if not simple, questions. How and why is it that
we assume that modern knowledge is universal, despite its European genealogy and its
historically recent provenance? What warrant do we have for considering this superior
to the pre-modern knowledges of the West, and the autochthonous knowledges of the
non-West? Are we, in short, right to assume that modern Western knowledge transcends
the circumstances of its historical and geographical emergence and thus that the social
sciences are ‘true’ for everyone- even though to do so is to privilege the modern and the
western, over the pre-modern and the non-Western?

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	teoría postcolonial, epistemología, modernidad
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Politics
Dates:	Date Event June 2011 Published
Item ID:	6365
Date Deposited:	28 Dec 2011 17:24
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 15:31
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/6365

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