Abstract
Toward an Epistemology of Blindness: Why the New Forms of 'Ceremonial Adequacy' neither Regulate nor Emancipate
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
The European Journal of Social Theory, 4, 3, 251-279
2001-08-01
Abstract
Abstract According to Hegel, universal history goes from the East to the West. This idea underlies the dominant conception of the 20th century as the European American Century. In this article, I submit that there has been another, subaltern 20th century, the Nuestra AmericaAmerican Century. The European American Century carries into the new millennium its empirical arrogance in the form of(...)
