Unhastening science : autonomy and reflexivity in the social theory of knowledge / Dick Pels
- Author
- Pels, Dick, 1948-
- Published
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: The Timescape of Science; 2: What (Again) is So Special about Science?; 3: Two Traditions in the Social Theory of Knowledge; 4: The Natural Proximity of Facts and Values; 5: Knowledge Politics and Anti-Politics: Bourdieu on Science and Intellectuals; 6: The Politics of Symmetry; 7: Reflexivity: One Step Up; 8: Intellectual Autonomy and the Politics of Slow Motion; Epilogue: Weak Social Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
- Summary
- This book offers a new account of what makes science special among other human pursuits, critically engaging with a variety of approaches, especially constructivist and relativist studies of science and technology. It focuses on the studied?lack of haste? of science, its relative stress-freeness and its socially sanctioned withdrawal from the swift pace of ordinary life. Unhastening Science offers a balanced and thoughtful argument which emphasises the dangers of cosseting science from the?scourge? of internal competition while at the same time highlighting the need for?distance? between th.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781846314322 (electronic bk.)
1846314321 (electronic bk.)
9780853235989
0853235988
1781386978
9781781386972
9780853236382
0853236380
0853235988 (pbk.) - Digital File Characteristics
- text file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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