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Toward an Epistemology of Blindness Why the New Forms of `Ceremonial Adequacy' neither Regulate nor Emancipate

UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA, PORTUGAL

My starting point in this paper is the artistic structures of the Renaissance. Resorting to what I call an epistemology of blindness, I set out to identify the limits of representation in modern science. This epistemology applies to different sciences in different degrees. I argue that the degree is particularly high in the case of mainstream economics. At the end of the paper I indicate some possible ways of advancing from an epistemology of blindness toward an epistemology of seeing.

Key Words: epistemology • mainstream economics • social emancipation • social theory • western modernity

European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 4, No. 3, 251-279 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/13684310122225109


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