Zero-point hubris : science, race, and enlightenment in eighteenth-century Latin America / Santiago Castro-Gómez ; translated by George Ciccariello-Maher and Don T. Deere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castro-Gómez, Santiago, 1958- author.

Contributor:

Deere, Don T., translator.

Ciccariello-Maher, George, translator.

Series:

Reinventing Critical Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--Congresses.

Enlightenment.

Colombia--Civilization.

Colombia.

Colombia--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]

Summary:

Castro-Gómez argues that in the colonial periphery of the Spanish Americas, Enlightenment constituted not only the position of epistemic distance separating science from all other knowledges, but also the position of ethnic distance separating the criollos from the 'castes'. Epistemic violence-and not only physical violence-is thereby found at the very origin of Colombian nationality.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Translators' Introduction

Preface to the English Edition

Introduction

Chapter 1: Places of Enlightenment: Colonial Discourse and the Geopolitics of Knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment

1.1 The Cosmopolis Project

1.2 The Modernity/Coloniality Paradigm

Chapter 2: Purus Ab Omnia Macula Sanguinis1: The Apparatus of Whiteness in New Granada

2.1 The Ethnicization of Wealth

2.2 Biopower and the Race War

2.3 The Walls of the Lettered City

Chapter 3: Imperial Biopolitics: Health and Disease Under the Bourbon Reforms

3.1 The Disenchantment of the World or the Twilight of Charity

3.2 Infested Cities

3.3 Moths Destroying the Republic

3.4 The Hospital as the Dream of Reason

3.5 The Taming of Chance

3.6 License to Cure

Chapter 4: Illegitimate Knowledges: The Enlightenment as Apparatus of Epistemic Expropriation

4.1 Accursed Children

4.2 The Cunning of Botanical Reason

Chapter 5: Striated Spaces: Geography, Territorial Politics, and Population Control

5.1 Geography as "Rigorous Science"

5.2 The Construction of "Anthropological Place"

5.3 The Criollos in the "Dispute of the New World"

Epilogue

Appendix

1. Biopolitics and Bourbon Reforms

2. Political Economy as a Technology of Government

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78661-378-6