Crítica de la razón (moderna, Occidental) impura A critique of impure (modern, Western) reason

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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Abstract or Description

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:

DateEvent
June 2011Published

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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