Paradigmes
Volume 7, Numéro 3, Pages 5-20
2024-10-07

De La Prétention Des Sciences Coloniales : De La Logique De L’indifférence Ou Du Dédain à La “révolution Tranquille”

Auteurs : Dahou Foudil .

Résumé

Starting from the hypothesis of a common questioning relating to the meeting of temporality and spatiality which the human race prides itself with confidence in being able to master through its faculties of transmission and communication, the social and human sciences attempt to clearly assert their originality through the primacy of scientificity. However, in reality, their precarious authority perpetually incites informed “thinkers” to more questions with very philosophical views. Therefore, three essential questions arise. What emblematic foundation could the so-called colonial sciences claim at a certain time when the ambient materialism seemed to be able to justify all excesses? Did these colonial sciences, objectively understood, therefore constitute a response to the anthropological, sociological and economic concepts of a time when scientificities claimed to order the World? Is it still time, today, to stand up against the pretensions of these colonial sciences in search of scientific recognition and to adopt a completely different intellectual attitude: that of a paradigm of autonomy of thought in the service of “national novel”? Beyond the legitimate need and the decent desire to finally bring to fruition a decolonization, sometimes appreciated, sometimes decried, of the social and human sciences in dispute, it would certainly be better to attempt a “quiet revolution” of the disgruntled minds suffering from egomorphism and establishing itself as an epistemic community.

Mots clés

Colonial Sciences ; Materialism ; Excess ; Concept ; Scientificity