Epistemologies of the South : Justice against epistemicide

Contents
Preface
Manifesto for Good Living/Buen Vivir
Minifesto for Intellectual-Activists
Creating a Distance in Relation to Western-centric
Political Imagination and Critical Theory
Strong Questions and Weak Answers
The End of Capitalism without End
The End of Colonialism without End
The Paradox of Urgency and Civilizational Change
Very Old or Very New? The Example of the
Yasuní Project
The Loss of Critical Nouns
The Ghostly Relation between Theory and Practice
Conclusion
Part One
Centrifugal Modernities and Subaltern Wests:
Degrees of Separation
Nuestra America: Postcolonial Identities and Mestizajes
The European American Century and the Rise
ofSocietal Fascism
The Nuestra America Century
The Founding Ideas of Nuestra America
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
The Baroque Ethos: Prolegomena for an Insurgent
Cosmopolitan Politics and Culture
The Limits of Nuestra America
Counterhegemonic Possibilities for the
Twenty-First Century
Conclusion: Which Side Are You On, Ariel?
Another Angelus Novus: Beyond the Modern Game of
Roots and Options
Introduction
The Past in a Cage
The Parable of the Angelus Novus
Roots and Options
The End of the Equation
A Future for the Past
Destabilizing Subjectivities
Is There a Non-Occidentalist West?
Philosophy for Sale
Learned Ignorance
The Wager
Conclusion
Part Two
Toward Epistemologies of the South:
Against the Waste of Experience
Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to
Ecologies of Knowledges
The Abyssal Divide between Regulation/
Emancipation and Appropriation/Violence
Conclusion: Toward Postabyssal Thinking
Toward an Epistemology of Blindness: Why the New
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Forms of “Ceremonial Adequacy” neither Regulate nor
Emancipate
Introduction
Knowledge-as-Regulation and
Knowledge-as-Emancipation
The Representation of Limits
The Determination of Relevance
The Determination of Degrees of Relevance
The Determination of Identification
The Impossibility of Duration
The Determination of Interpretation and Evaluation
From the Epistemology of Blindness to the
Epistemology ofSeeing
Toward an Epistemology ofSeeing
Conclusion
A Critique of Lazy Reason: Against the Waste of
Experience and Toward the Sociology of Absences and the
Sociology of Emergences
Introduction
The Critique of Metonymic Reason
The Critique ofProleptic Reason
Conclusion
Ecologies of Knowledges
The Ecology of Knowledges and the Inexhaustible
Diversity of World Experience
Modern Science as Part of an Ecology
of Knowledges
External Plurality: The Ecology of Knowledges
Relativizing the Distinction between the
Internal and External Plurality of Knowledges:
The Case of African Philosophy
Chapter 8
The Ecology of Knowledges, Hierarchy, and
Pragmatics
Orientations for Prudent Knowledge
Intercultural Translation: Differing and Sharing con
Passionalità
On Intercultural Translation as a Living
Translation
Learning from the South through Intercultural
Translation
Conditions and Procedures of Translation
Conclusion
References
Index