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The Epistemic Violence of Mathematics

Decolonial-Feminist Re-Writings of the »Rational« and the »Human«
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 2026

Summary

What does it mean to know something? What does it mean to prove something? And how are the two connected? Cara-Julie Kather explores Mathematics as a way of thinking and being in the world. She investigates Mathematics in its conceptual relation to Western understandings of the Rational and the Human, and proposes possibilities of subverting Western Mathematics and of forming different mathematical practices. To engage in decolonial-feminist re-writings of the Rational and the Human requires to re-write mathematical practice too. This study seeks to inspire such practices of re-writing thinking and being – in the realm of the mathematical and beyond.

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Bibliographic data

Edition
1/2026
Copyright Year
2026
ISBN-Print
978-3-8376-7982-3
ISBN-Online
978-3-8394-4475-7
Publisher
transcript, Bielefeld
Series
Philosophie – Aufklärung – Kritik
Volume
18
Language
English
Pages
223
Product Type
Monograph

Table of contents

ChapterPages
  1. FrontmatterPages 1 - 9 Download chapter (PDF)
  2. Preface by Kira HerffPages 11 - 14 Download chapter (PDF)
  3. IntroductionPages 15 - 25 Download chapter (PDF)
  4. 1. Bodies of Sense‐MakingPages 27 - 81 Download chapter (PDF)
  5. 2. Epistemic Violence as a Violence on SubjectificationPages 83 - 113 Download chapter (PDF)
  6. 3. Mathematical DisobediencePages 115 - 153 Download chapter (PDF)
  7. 4. Wild MathematicsPages 155 - 199 Download chapter (PDF)
  8. ConclusionPages 201 - 204 Download chapter (PDF)
  9. AcknowledgementsPages 205 - 207 Download chapter (PDF)
  10. BibliographyPages 209 - 219 Download chapter (PDF)

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