ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I engage in a critique of the hegemonic Western model of rationality, which after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1985 [1710]) I call lazy reason, 1 and propose the prolegomena to another model that I designate subaltern cosmopolitan reason, the reason that grounds the epistemologies of the South. The proposal is based on three procedures: the sociology of absences, the sociology of emergences, and the work of intercultural translation. The first two are dealt with in this chapter; the third will be addressed in Chapter 8.
