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Zero-Point Hubris

- Science, Race, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Latin America

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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 ΓÇÿepistemicΓÇÖ. Santiago Castro-G├│mez argues that toward the end of the 18th century, this epistemic violence of the Spanish Empire assumed a specific form: zero-point hubris. The ΓÇÿmany forms of knowingΓÇÖ 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-G├│mez 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 ΓÇÿcastesΓÇÖ. Epistemic violenceΓÇöand not only physical violenceΓÇöis thereby found at the very origin of Colombian nationality.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781786613776
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 330
  • Udgivet:
  • 16. december 2021
  • Størrelse:
  • 154x219x21 mm.
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  • 535 g.
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  • 22. januar 2025
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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 ΓÇÿepistemicΓÇÖ. Santiago Castro-G├│mez argues that toward the end of the 18th century, this epistemic violence of the Spanish Empire assumed a specific form: zero-point hubris. The ΓÇÿmany forms of knowingΓÇÖ 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-G├│mez 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 ΓÇÿcastesΓÇÖ. Epistemic violenceΓÇöand not only physical violenceΓÇöis thereby found at the very origin of Colombian nationality.

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