The End of the Cognitive Empire

“Boaventura de Sousa Santos is one of the most brilliant and original thinkers on theories of knowledge. This latest book offers us a further development of what he has been arguing for some time. He leaves the reader (at least, me) breathless in the range and relevance of the issues he discusses and actions he proposes. One does not have to agree with everything to be dazzled, and to rethink many things we assume. A must-read for whoever wants to change the world.” - Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University

“The result of many years of work, this book was written toward the possibility of what I would call ‘una epistemología solidaria,’ an epistemology in solidarity with those who want to change the world as it is hegemonically known. Boaventura de Sousa Santos’s political analysis in The End of the Cognitive Empire offers an alternative that steers political analysis away from the usual alternatives.” - Marisol de la Cadena, author of Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

"Santos develops an interesting reflection for a period in which some morally repugnant forms of social inequality and social discrimination are becoming politically acceptable." - Sandra Bustamante, ERLACS

"De Sousa Santos does a commendable job at providing a structured methodological guide for doing research pertaining to the epistemologies of the South and addresses pedagogical challenges anticipated with the advent of the proposed conceptual shift in the thinking of political change." - Dieunedort Wandji, International Journal of Francophone Studies

“The End of the Cognitive Empire is an outstanding book that takes forward Santos’s previous Epistemologies of the South by providing a more practical guide replete with real-world examples and experiences, many of them firsthand.”

"In what is attractive to both newer readers (like me), as well as those familiar with his work, this book provides an excellent summary of his previous scholarship along with new concepts such as ‘postabyssal pedagogies,’ reinvented pedagogies emergent from the deconstruction and unlearning of pedagogies based solely on epistemologies of the North.”
  - Greg Misiaszek, Comparative Education Review

“An extraordinary compilation of Sousa Santos’ theoretical and practical contributions, The End of the Cognitive Empire, is an addition to discussions about the epistemic foundations of social struggles across the globe. Divided into three parts, each is a profound reflection on how the knowledges questioning the North are articulated to advance an anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-colonial agenda…. [This book is] off interest to researchers and students in the social sciences, humanities, postcolonial studies, and empirical philosophers of science….” - Leandro Rodriguez-Medina, Metascience