Culture in Political Theory  

Oleh:

Scott, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Political Theory vol. 31 no. 1 (Feb. 2003), page 92-115.
Fulltext: 92PT311.pdf (108.14KB)

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To see the Other as culturally different is no cause for applause and self-congratulation. . . . This marks not a moral nor an intellectual victory but a great trivialization of the encounter with the Other. . . . To say then that since we now see the non-European Other democratically as merely having a different culture, as being fundamentally ‘only’culturally different, we have a more just idea of her, a less prejudiced and truer idea of her than did the nineteenth century who sawher on the horizon of historical evolutionary development, the Enlightenment who sawher on the horizon of ignorance, or the Renaissance who sawher on the horizon of the demonical, would be merely to reaffirm the Eurocentric idea of the progress of knowledge; i.e., itwould be to instantaneously, retroactively, and totally transform thiswork from being an archaeology of the different conceptions of difference into being, once again, a history of the progress of anthropological knowledge and an affirmation and celebration of the teleology of truth.

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