ABSTRACT

IN MY Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition (1995), I argued that the paradigmatic transition I was dealing with—from Western modernity as a sociocultural hegemonic paradigm toward another paradigm, or toward other paradigms impossible to name adequately— would occur both at the epistemological and the socio-politico-juridical level. In the book I am now concluding, I present the general outlines of the epistemological dimension of the transition. In Epistemologies of the South: Reinventing Social Emancipation (forthcoming), I will present the main contours of the social, political, and juridical dimensions of the same transition.