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Karl Jaspers once wrote that the general public made use of the results of science like primitive peoples made use of the…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is the emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. His most recent book is Decolonizing the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice.
Both personally and collectively, the certainties of the present always carry with them the germ of future uncertainties. But there are moments…
Trump’s victory is a desperate and historically understandable gesture by US society to halt the decline of the imperial prosperity it experienced…
Who, like me, witnessed the birth of the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Rio de Janeiro in May 1992 and has followed its performance…
Recent times have given plenty of reason for pessimism. There have been many strong threats to three sources of stability and civility…
The world is moving inexorably towards war. Any imaginary poll of the world’s population would show that nobody wants war. But war…
This text is not specifically about the brutal atrocity of the Gaza genocide. But it is dedicated to it, and the reasons…
The Latin expression, praecisio mundi, precision of the world, has a long history in Western philosophy, acquired renewed notoriety since Descartes and…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos A reflection on Venezuela I am not, nor have I ever been, a staunch Chavista. Hugo Chavez was…
In periods of great social and political polarization, names, concepts and ideologies are subject to great semantic turmoil. The confusion created is…