Zero-Point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Latin America - Paperback

by Santiago Castro-Gómez (Author), George Ciccariello-Maher (Translator), Don T. Deere (Translator)

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.

Author Biography

Santiago Castro-Gómez is professor of philosophy at the University of Santo Tomás and the University Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. He has taught as visiting professor at Duke University, Pittsburgh University, and the University of Frankfurt. His book, Critique of Latin American Reason is now a classic text of Latin American philosophy. His many other publications include La hybris del punto cero, Tejidos oníricos, History of Governmentality, Volumes I & II, and Revolutions without Subject. George Ciccariello-Maher is Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at Vassar College. Don T. Deere is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University.