Epistemic humility offers a needed remedy to modern sovereignty.

Evidence

If Orientalism has always been about Europe, as the bulk of Said’s project claims, then the methods and lessons to be drawn require rethinking, being, after Said, a self-conscious project. Yet, this is not to suggest that the Orientalist alone is to bear the burden of correcting the ills of her society—admittedly an unbearable burden—but the Orientalist happens, by virtue of her location within the formation of modern knowledge, to stand at the intersection in which knowledge of the Other is her expertise, par excellence. As I intimated earlier, if Orientalism was the most obvious bridge through which the Other was so badly constructed, then it is this bridge that can begin refashioning the self through a heuristic accessing of an instructive Other. Alien to modernity, epistemic humility, an antidote to sovereignty, is a much-needed remedy. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 507

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines epistemic humility as an antidote to the sovereignty that characterizes modernity.