EPISTEM’ÈṢÙ

Abstract

epistem’Èṣù, a meta-scientific proposal in the area of Language and Culture, based on African matrix knowledge, with an emphasis on Yoruban gnosis. Literature-terreiro (FREITAS, 2017), an Afro-risomatic analytical operator (FREITAS, 2016) modulated at the crossroads of knowledge for a better critical adjustment of literary forms and contents produced by black people, was the initial theme of the research, with the title Èṣù as epistemology of Literature-terreiro. Academic investigations of literature still concatenate within themselves more strongly logocentric forges, with assumptions and parameters that signal Western epistemology. Throughout the research, the scientific foundations of the literature, but also the way in which Èṣù was captured and systematized by the anthropological sciences, evidenced the episteme as a theoretical field that should be explored in centrality. Concomitantly, epistem'Èṣù results from two investigative processes: first, understanding the field of epistemological theories; understanding the basic theoretical parameters of scientific methodology; taking ontology as an intrinsic operation of doing research that identifies presuppositions of the scientific field. Such indicators composed the research without deterring from the literary, artistic and cultural. The second investigative process focused on ancestral, Yoruban knowledge, on the principles of Èṣù, mainly in its spherical, molecular and atomic constitution, which make it possible to perceive vibration, tuning, flow, pulverization, fragmentation and wholeness. From an idea of empiricism afrocented in the experiences and rites of Candomble and African generatrices, the perspective taken in the research directed the search for other parameters of scientificity beyond rationality.