2002
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-512x2002000100004
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Political philosophy, ethnology, and time: a study of the notion of historical handicap

Abstract: This article starts by identifying the crucial importance of the notion of historical handicap for the present-day social sciences of Latin America. Such notion is not an original invention made by Latinamericanists. On the contrary, I demonstrate that the genealogy of the notion of historical handicap must be sought in the tradition of Western political philosophy. Such genealogy must take into account the way it was integrated into ethnological descriptions. When and how did the Other become the backward, th… Show more

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