The primary way to Latin America as an epistemological horizon.

Abstract

The first part of this essay deals with the relationship between the building process of a Nation-State and social Knowledge. It supports the view that the political process of national construction turns into an epistemological field. On the one hand, the elaboration of a world vision for individuals, and the other, the creation of knowledge in the Social Science area. The weakening of the Nation-State has had consequences in terms of social Knowledge in our countries. In the second part, it argues the idea of Latin America as an epistemological field, which allows the articulation of a middle-ground theory for generating social and historical models. Also, the region presents a field to critique the validity of the Anglo and European based theories as being universal from a comparative view of the diverse history of Latin America.