Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (Dec 2017)

Más allá de la imaginación política y de la teoría crítica eurocéntricas

  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.6784
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 114
pp. 75 – 116

Abstract

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Maintaining a proper distance with respect to Eurocentric tradition is the equivalent of being aware of the fact that the diversity of human experience in the world is inexhaustible, and thus no single general theory can explain it. Sustaining such a distance allows for what I call the twofold transgressive sociology of absences and the sociology of emergences. Such a transgressive sociology is, in fact, an epistemological step which consists of contrasting the epistemologies of the South with the dominant epistemologies of the global North.

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