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From Eurocentrism to a Polycentric Vision of the World: Advocacy for a Paradigm Shift

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Adama Samassékou
Adama Samassékou*
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CIPSH1
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Adama Samassékou, CIPSH, Bamako BP E 214, Mali Email: asamass@gmail.com
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Abstract

Humanities and social sciences have so far adopted an approach keeping Europe at the heart of the scientific debates, to the detriment of the other continents and thus, of the other cultures in the world, relegated to the periphery of the dynamics of intellectual reflection and production. This Eurocentrism is also evident in the economic, socio-cultural, political and religious fields. The case of the relationships between Africa and Europe is quite enlightening.

The recent crisis, which is not only financial and economic but also cultural and more generally societal, reveals a loss of sense reinforced by the attempt to standardize the world’s cultures induced by the accelerated globalization leading to a real dehumanization of the relationships between individuals, peoples and States.

It is urgent to make a paradigm shift through the reconstruction of humanities and social sciences, in the perspective of a polycentrism based on cultural and linguistic diversity in the world and capable of strengthening the dialogue between cultures and civilizations, and therefore, peace in the world.

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Diogenes , Volume 58 , Issue 1-2: The Humanities Today , May 2011 , pp. 147 - 158
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Copyright © ICPHS 2012

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