ISBN : 9782296545458
TOWARDS AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL REVOLUTION SPLIT REASON: SUBJECT, TRANSLATION AND MODERNITIES
There have been many turning points in history. In our time, the end of the Cold War in 1989, which made globalisation evident, was one such point. It also entailed a fragmentation. Another turning point of modernity that still has an imprint on us can be described as the period from which a continuity has been established for the European episteme, which, by the same token, has been universalized as western. All other epistemes were forced to interrupt continuity with their own past if they wanted to access modernity. Their past counts as "premodern" or "traditional", and thus belated compared with universalised modernity. The latter's pattern and that of the modern "political" have spread with western languages...