Prophets Facing Sidewise: The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference
Prophets Facing Sidewise: The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference
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先知们侧脸：知识的地缘政治与殖民差异
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2002
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Walter D. Mignolo
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作者：
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没有一个安全的地方，也没有一个单一的表达轨迹，可以从那里为所有人和永远表达统一。印度民族主义和西方新自由主义纠缠在长期的殖民逻辑（统治，压迫，剥削）中，隐藏在现代性（拯救，文明，进步，发展，自由和民主）的修辞下。然而，印度人和西方进步知识分子有必要和可能共同努力，以破坏和取代西方自由主义思想家比印度分裂后的印度思想家更能理解什么是共同利益的假设。归根结底，科学本身并没有道德和政治。因此，认为科学超越这两者，只关心知识和理解前沿的进步是值得怀疑的。科学可以（像基督教，印度教，自由主义或马克思主义）既帝国和解放。知识和理解，而不是科学;灵知论而不是认识论，应该被认为是走向对话和批判的世界主义的视野（例如，多元性作为普遍项目），可以设想超越东方和西方，印度教民族主义和西方（新）自由主义。
There is no safe place and no single locus of enunciation from where the uni‐versal could be articulated for all and forever. Hindu nationalism and Western neo‐liberalism are entangled in a long history of the logic of coloniality (domination, oppression, exploitation) hidden under the rhetoric of modernity (salvation, civilization, progress, development, freedom and democracy). There are, however, needs and possibilities for Indians and Western progressive intellectuals working together to undermine and supersede the assumptions that liberal thinkers in the West are better placed to understand what is the common good better than Indian thinkers in post‐partition India. Science, in the last analysis, doesn’t carry in itself an ethics and politics. Therefore, it is doubtful to argue that science is beyond both, and only concerned with the advancement of the frontier of knowledge and understanding. Science could be (like Christianity, Hinduism, Liberalism or Marxism) both imperial and liberating. Knowledge and understanding, rather than science; gnoseology rather than epistemology, should be thought out as which the horizon toward a dialogical and critical cosmopolitanism (e.g., pluriversallity as universal project), could be envisioned beyond East and West, Hindu nationalism and Westertn (neo) liberalism.