Abstract

My starting point in this paper is the artistic structures of the Renaissance. Resorting to what I call an epistemology of blindness, I set out to identify the limits of representation in modern science. This epistemology applies to different sciences in different degrees. I argue that the degree is particularly high in the case of mainstream economics. At the end of the paper I indicate some possible ways of advancing from an epistemology of blindness toward an epistemology of seeing.

Keywords: epistemology; mainstream economics; social emancipation; social theory; western modernity

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Original Contents by The European Journal of Social Theory, 4, 3, 251-279