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+====They ask us to simply trust their identity. Such moves discount evidence and reduce epistemology to the value we are demanded to place in our sympathies with the authority of the person. When "performing evidence" substitutes for evidence, the appearance of legitimacy dooms the pursuit of knowledge and propagates decadence.==== |
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+Lewis **Gordon '06**—professor at philosophy, African and Judiac Studies at University of Connecticut Storrs—2006 (Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times, p 28-29) |
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+A striking feature (among many) of the contemporary intellectual climate, as I |
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+of past failures of certain social remedies take the form of perennial truths. |
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+====Decadence allows the colonization of methods, thinking, and destroys the possibility of a decolonized ethics of the oppressed to overturn.==== |
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+Lewis **Gordon 14**—professor of philosophy, African and Judiac Studies at the University of Connecticut—2014 ("Disciplinary Decadence and the Decolonization of Knowledge," Africa Development 39.1: 81-92, 88). |
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+The first is regarding the political significance of this critique. For politics to exist |
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+approaches, even in the name of liberation, face a similar fate. |