Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory this important work starts from the assumption that the violence exercised by European colonialism was not only physical and economic but also epistemic. Santiago CastroGomez argues that toward the end of the 18th century this epistemic violence of the Spanish Empire assumed a specific form zeropoint hubris. The many forms of knowing were integrated into a chronological hierarchy in which scientificenlightened knowle