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Zero-point hubris : science, race, and enlightenment in eighteenth-century Latin America
Uniform Title
Hybris del punto cero. English
Title
Zero-point hubris : science, race, and enlightenment in eighteenth-century Latin America / Santiago Castro-Gómez ; translated by George Ciccariello-Maher and Don T. Deere.
ISBN
9781786613769
178661376X
9781786613776
1786613778
9781786613783
Publication
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Physical Description
xviii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes
Translated from Spanish.
Summary
"Castro-Gómez 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 'castes'. Epistemic violence-and not only physical violence-is thereby found at the very origin of Colombian nationality"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Castro-Gómez, Santiago, 1958- Hybris del punto cero. English Zero-point hubris Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2021
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 02, 2022
Series
Reinventing critical theory
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Places of enlightenment : colonial discourse and the geopolitics of knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment
Purus ab omnia Macula Sanguinis : the apparatus of whiteness in New Granada
Imperial biopolitics : health and disease under the Bourbon reforms
Illegitimate knowledges : the Enlightenment as apparatus of epistemic expropriation
Striated spaces : geography, territorial politics, and population control
Epilogue.
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