Geo-epistemology
Subtitle: Latin America and the location of knowledge
By: Claudio Canaparo.
Series: Hispanic studies: culture and ideas -- v. 23; Hispanic studies: culture and ideas -- v. 23.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9783039115730
Subjects: Social epistemology -- Latin America; Knowledge, Theory of; Geography -- Philosophy; Geography -- Latin America; Knowledge, Sociology of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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: The wasted land; title: The place of knowledge; title: 'Ética del resentimiento'; title: 'Teoría del terreno baldío'; title: 'El país de no me acuerdo'.