Cognitive Justice in a Global World

Prudent Knowledges for a Decent Life
Herausgeber: de Sousa Santos, Boaventura

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book's main argument is that global social injustice is by and large epistemological injustice. It maintains that there can be no global social justice without global cognitive justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 899g
• ISBN-13: 9780739121948
• ISBN-10: 0739121944
• Artikelnr.: 22885030

Autorenporträt

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is professor of sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal) and distinguished legal scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface: How Reason Lost its Balance
Part 2 Introduction: A Discourse on the Sciences
Part 3 Neither Truce Nor Surrender: Are the Science Wars Over?
Chapter 4 Pathways to Cosmopolitan Knowledge
Chapter 5 Whither the "Two Cultures": Another Volley in the "Science Wars"
Chapter 6 On Wars and Revolutions
Chapter 7 Scientific Authority and the Post-Euclidean Revolution in
Mathematics
Chapter 8 The Structures of Knowledge, or How Many Ways May We Know
Chapter 9 Becoming Civilized: Beyond the Great Divide
Chapter 10 The Self, Psychoanalysis and Epistemology
Part 11 Complex, Creative and Situated Interrogations: Science in Action
Chapter 12 Science and Human Well-Being: Toward a New Way of Structuring
Scientific Activity
Chapter 13 E.P. Wigner and the Foundation of Quantum Physics
Chapter 14 The Rhetoric of Science in Darwin'sOn the Origin of Species
Chapter 15 On the Borders: Science as it is done
Part 16 Global Cognitive Justice: Reconstructing Knowledges and World
Making
Chapter 17 Actors, Networks and New Knowledge Producers: Social Movements
and the Paradigmatic Transition in the Sciences
Chapter 18 Reconstructing Unruly Ecological Complexity: Science,
Interpretation and Critical, Reflective Practice
Chapter 19 The Demise of Critical Theory in Economics
Chapter 20 Between Cosmology and System: The Heuristics of a Dissenting
Imagination
Chapter 21 Subjects or Objects of Knowledge? International Consultancy and
the production of knowledge in Mozambique
Chapter 22 The Splendors and Miseries of "Science": Coloniality,
Geopolitics of Knowledge and Epistemic Pluri-Versality
Chapter 23 Beyond Eurocentrism: Systematic Knowledge in a Tropical Context:
A Manifesto
Chapter 24 From an Epistemology of Blindness to an Epistemology of Seeing