The scientific turn to Relativity enabled the relativism of cultures to prevail

Evidence

There is a revealing correspondence between the philosophies secreted by the sciences in the West and the conceptions cornmonly held about or imposed upon cultures and their relations. During the period when positivism was triumphant, culture (and not yet cultures) was conceived of as monolithic, culture existing wherever the refinements of civilization have led to humanism. … It required the illustration of the notion of the relative in the scientific theory of Relativity for an awareness of the relativisrn of cultures to prevail. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 661

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing whether Glissant dates the cultures-relativism turn correctly given Montaigne’s own earlier counter-example he admits was suppressed for three centuries.
• XREF: connects to: Rising non-Western cultures relativized the Western episteme; Physical relativity is ontological, not merely epistemological — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 835

Broader Connections

• Physical relativity is ontological, not merely epistemological #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 835
• Rising non-Western cultures relativized the Western episteme #qualifies (0.80)