A Non-Occidentalist West?: Learned Ignorance and Ecology of Knowledge

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 103-125

  de Sousa Santos, Boaventura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Blaise Pascal; ecology of knowledge; learned ignorance; Lucian of Samosata; Nicholas of Cusa; post colonialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649266551     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276409348079     Document Type: Article

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