Eurocentrismo e narrazioni della modernità scientifica. Tre prospettive globali

Eurocentrism and Scientific Modernity Narratives. Three Proposals to Provincialize Europe
If we assume the transitional adequacy of modernity as a historical and epistemological framework, we must understand what role different narratives of modern science play within the contested space of modernity. What scenarios appear if we couple such narratives of modern science with the entangled inter-societal, polycentric cartography of existing intertwined geo-historical locations relationally constructed at the global scale? From this vantage point, I consider three perspectives in the debate over «science and modernity», taking the critique to Eurocentrism as a theoretical assumption: Arun Bala’s dialogical history of the Scientific Revolution, Susantha Goonatilake’s proposal of a Global Science, and Benjamin Elman Sinocentric history of science. It is my contention that even these radical, revisionist and innovative perspectives about the relation between science and modernity remain caught in a normative-explanatory trap. Such a trap is the sfrom which has the.

Parole chiave: Modernità multiple; Storia dialogica; Sinocentrismo; Scienza
Keywords: Multiple modernities; Dialogical history; Sinocentrism; Science