The darker side of the Renaissance: literacy, territoriality, and colonization

Introduction : On describing ourselves describing ourselves : comparatism, differences, and pluritopic hermeneutics

1. Nebrija in the new world : Renaissance philosophy of language and the spread of western literacy

2. The materiality of reading and writing cultures : the chain of sounds, graphic signs, and sign carriers

3. Record keeping without letters and writing histories of people wiithout history

4. Genres as social practices : histories, Enkyclopaideias, and the limits of knowledge and understanding

5. The movable center : ethnicity, geometric projections, and coexisting territorialities

6. Putting the Americas on the map : cartography and the colonization of space

Afterword : On modernity, colonization, and the rise of occidentalism.