Geo-epistemology
Subtitle: Latin America and the location of knowledge
By: Claudio Canaparo.
Series: Hispanic studies -- 23
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783039115730
Subjects: Social epistemology -- Latin America; Knowledge, Theory of; Geography -- Philosophy; Geography -- Latin America; Knowledge, Sociology of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Spatial thinking and foreignness; title: Geography and philosophy; title: The domain; title: The question of/the location; title: The question of comprehension; title: Spatial thinking; title: El pensamiento de la cosa; title: Space, geometry and the colonies; title: The epistemological dimension; title: The historiographical connection; title: Space and colonial state; title: Local, far away and thinking; title: Science and empire; title: A historiographical construction; title: Empire and geo-epistemology; title: The evolution of ideas; title: The translation effect; title: From building the empire to constructing science; title: Modernity, science, knowledge; title: Towards a scientific imaginary and an invisible empire : from historiography to visual culture; title: Language, knowledge and horizon d'attente; title: The idea of knowledge; title: The idea of language; title: The thinking, the factual, and the world; title: Reversal thinking; title: Writing from the colonies; title: Space of thinking; title: The reversal perspective; title: Postface the wasted land; title: The place of knowledge; title: Ética del resentimiento; title: Teoría del terreno baldío; title: El país de no me acuerdo.