This book addresses the ideological figure of modernity, its presumed historical significance as an era, and its theoretical adequacy as a frame. It shows how science is evoked to prevent the sociological imagination from elaborating non-Eurocentric categories and terminologies …
"Dedication"--"Preface and Acknowledgments"--"Contents " -- "1: Introduction: The Epistemological Ritual of Modernity" -- " Why Science" -- "The Coloniality of Method" -- " Unthinking/Decolonizing" -- " Teratological Concept Formation" -- " Structure of the Book" -- "Referen…
This book addresses the ideological figure of modernity, its presumed historical significance as an era, and its theoretical adequacy as a frame. It shows how sociology and modernity evoke science to prevent the sociological imagination from elaborating non-Eurocentric categorie…