{"product_id":"maps-for-a-fiesta-a-latinao-perspective-on-knowledge-and-the-global-crisis-9780823263042","title":"Maps for a Fiesta  A Latinao Perspective on","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReprises foundational issues for identity, power, and justice in the context of what humans take as the known world, especially the social world, and what others impose on them as knowledge of that world in order to serve the interests of a dominating minority over the life chances of the majority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a word, Maps for a Fiesta is perennial and relevant.\" -- -Andrew Weigert University of Notre Dame\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD TO THE 1ST ENGLISH EDITION       INTRODUCTION       FIESTA, SORROW AND KNOWLEDGE      A CURSORY AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO BEGIN WITH      WITH LIBERATION THEOLOGIES      HOW DID I GET INTERESTED IN THIS KNOWLEDGE THING?      AND WHOEVER COULD BE BOTHERED BY THIS STUFF?      A SHORTAGE OF SUITABLE READING MATERIALS      WHAT, AFTER ALL, DO WE MEAN HERE BY \"KNOWLEDGE\"?      SOME KEY CLARIFICATIONS       1 - DOES EXPERIENCE SHAPE OUR KNOWLEDGE?      SOME DIMENSIONS OF THIS QUESTION      DT Life's Formative Experiences      DT Life's Joys and Difficulties      DT Loving Acceptance      DT Social Norms      DT What is \"Known and Accepted\"      DT Certainties      DT Power      DT Frustrations      DT Contradictions and Inconsistencies      A BASIC SYNTHESIS OF THE DISCUSSION       2 - CALMLY REFLECTING ON OUR KNOWLEDGE      SOME DIMENSIONS OF THIS QUESTION      DT Why Make Life More Complicated than it Already Is?      DT Why Reflect Deeply on Our Reality?      DT Examining the Place from Which We Know      DT Studying the History of What We Want to Know      DT Contrasting the Familiar with the Different      DT Walking A Mile in Somebody Else's Shoes      DT Carefully Reviewing Our Convictions and Positions      A BASIC SYNTHESIS OF THE DISCUSSION       3 - OPPRESSION, LIBERATION, AND KNOWLEDGE      SOME DIMENSIONS OF THIS QUESTION       DT Static Visions and Power Dynamics      DT Need and Limits of Theories of Oppression      DT Who is Responsible for Our Burdens?      DT Isn't Knowledge for Intellectuals Only?      DT Practical Context and Theoretical Knowledge      DT Expanding Our Criteria for Discerning Truth      A BASIC SYNTHESIS OF THE DISCUSSION       4 - HOW DO WE EXPRESS AND SHARE KNOWLEDGE      SOME DIMENSIONS OF THIS QUESTION      DT Language as an Instrument for World-Construction      DT Domination and Language Control      DT Communicating in Silence      DT For a Creative Re-appropriation of Language      DT Marginalization, Liberation, and Language      DT Common-Folk Language: Elitist versus Populist Assessments      DT Beyond the Written Word      A BASIC SYNTHESIS OF THE DISCUSSION       5 - RETHINKING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF KNOWLEDGE       SOME DIMENSIONS OF THIS QUESTION      DT Modern Sciences: Usefulness or Idolatry?      DT Reason, Emotions, and Knowledge      DT Knowledge as Imaginative Reconstruction of Relationships      DT Knowledge of What (Still) Isn't      DT Knowing as Pre-judging, Re-cognizing and Co-knowing      DT Knowledge as Misrecognition and Exaggeration      DT Knowledge as Continuous Transformation      DT Another Way of Looking at the Question of Truth and Error      DT Knowledge and Reality: Unity and Distinction      A BASIC SYNTHESIS AND A REDEFINITION       CONCLUSIONS      FROM PAST CERTAINTIES TO A TENTATIVE QUEST FOR THE FUTURE      SHARED QUEST(ION)S, RATHER THAN PREFABRICATED ANSWERS       NOTES       BIBLIOGRAPHY","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406139662679,"sku":"9780823263042","price":59.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823263042.jpg?v=1730494662","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/maps-for-a-fiesta-a-latinao-perspective-on-knowledge-and-the-global-crisis-9780823263042","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}