Knowledge must surrender its global pretensions. Its reach is always limited to its loci and condition of emergence, what Geertz calls the local and Lyotard, the pagan. It must not serve as an instrument of domination; in fact, it must renounce mastery as such. Its relations with others must be governed, for Geertz at least, by ethical considerations.
-Wlad Godzich, from the foreword to Michel de Certeau's "Heterologies: Discourse on the Other"
