![]() The error is twofold: first, it consists of a series of theoretical assertions that are central to post-Kantian conceptions of history and happen to have been influential in recent years in neo-Kantian, neo-Hegelian, or Marxist forms. For what matters is to understand that the promise of management itself-that of “progress” as a necessary effect inscribed in the structure of the modern-rests on an error. ![]() It would serve little purpose to denounce yet again (as Watson himself does) the persistence of such phenomena as ethnocentrism or an unjust world order. Unsettling as it may be, his opinion should not be dismissed as mere ethnocentric babble. In A Terrible Beauty: A History of the People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind (2000, 761), Peter Watson concludes that the chief intellectual effort of non-Western cultures in the twentieth century has been coming to terms with modernity, or, “learning how to cope with or respond to Western ways and Western patterns of thought, chiefly democracy and science.” ![]() Ideology, Capitalism, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Oscar Guardiola-Rivera ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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