Science as Power: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society (Language, Discourse, Society) - Hardcover

Aronowitz, Stanley

 
9780333475461: Science as Power: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society (Language, Discourse, Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0333475461 ISBN 13: 9780333475461
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Science, argues the author, has established itself as not merely the dominant, but the only legitimate form of human knowledge. By tying its truth claims to methodology, science has claimed independence from the influence of social and historical conditions. Science is therefore seen as an authority beyond critique, whose norms and values are neutral, self-evident and absolute. Aronowitz asserts that the norms of science are by no means self-evident and that science is best seen as a socially constructed discourse that legitimates its power by presenting itself as truth. He first discusses science and technology as hegemony, noting that fundamentalist religion, the ecology movement and radical feminism have all challenged the scientific worldview in recent years. He then examines Marx's theory of science and traces shifting notions of science and its discourse within the Marxist tradition - including the work of the Frankfurt School and Habermas. In the last part, he explores developments in philosophy, history and sociology of science that have begun to question its conceptions of truth and knowledge, but which still remain within the scientific discourse. Aronowitz ends with a call for a social theory of science that combines critical distance with historical analysis.

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Science, argues the author, has established itself as not merely the dominant, but the only legitimate form of human knowledge. By tying its truth claims to methodology, science has claimed independence from the influence of social and historical conditions. Science is therefore seen as an authority beyond critique, whose norms and values are neutral, self-evident and absolute. Aronowitz asserts that the norms of science are by no means self-evident and that science is best seen as a socially constructed discourse that legitimates its power by presenting itself as truth. He first discusses science and technology as hegemony, noting that fundamentalist religion, the ecology movement and radical feminism have all challenged the scientific worldview in recent years. He then examines Marx's theory of science and traces shifting notions of science and its discourse within the Marxist tradition - including the work of the Frankfurt School and Habermas. In the last part, he explores developments in philosophy, history and sociology of science that have begun to question its conceptions of truth and knowledge, but which still remain within the scientific discourse. Aronowitz ends with a call for a social theory of science that combines critical distance with historical analysis.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0333475461
ISBN 13 
9780333475461
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Anzahl der Seiten
397
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