„Svjetsko znanje”. O istorijskoj genezi komunikativno-kulturnog monopola Zapada
THE ”WORLD KNOWLEDGE”. ON THE HISTORICAL GENESIS OF THE COMMUNICATIVE-CULTURAL MONOPOLY OF THE WEST

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we try to understand the historical and structural reasons for the emergence and maintenance of information-communicative-epistemic primacy of the West in relation to the rest of humanity – from the beginnings of the modernity to the present day. The empirical superiority of the West, in addition to its technological and institutional components, has its substantial point in monopolization of the notion of knowledge (which is progressively reduced to opinion), which results in its de facto almost un- challenged primacy in determining what the world is and what universal human standards should be. The article reconstructs the ancient prehistory of European epistemic, i.e. Eurocentric cosmological exclusivism, as well as pays attention to some characteristic phenomena of modern inter-civilizational onto-epistemology.

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