The reason-passion dichotomy is as misleading as the East-West one

Evidence

The truth, of course, is that the distinction between reason and the passions is as suspect and ultimately as misleading as the dichotomy between East and West. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 415

Categorization

• DEFINE: Stoler collapses a foundational epistemological binary central to colonial discourse, naming it as suspect rather than natural.