Narrative Experiments: The Discursive Authority of Science and TechnologyU of Minnesota Press - 155 strán (strany) Narrative Experiments was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In Narrative Experiments, Gayle Ormiston and Ralph Sassower bring a refreshing perspective to the domains of inquiry we call "science" and "technology," asserting that traditional definitions (like classical idealism and materialism) fail to suggest the rich and complex cultural/linguistic interplay occurring between them. This context is not merely a background, nor is Ormiston and Sassower's just one more interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Instead, their book argues, science, technology, and the humanities developed in concert with one another, and their reciprocity obliterates all traditional disciplinary boundaries. Ormiston and Sassower build their case by devoting a chapter to each of the four themes emerging from the etymological introduction. First, they look at the role fiction and other literary modes play in developing our attitudes toward science and technology -- how the visions of Bacon, Hobbes, Galileo, Rousseau, Mary Shelley, and Orwell evoke both anxiety and hope. Next, they examine a series of eighteenth-century "fictions" -- the Enlightenment texts of Kant, Rousseau, and Hume -- and the elevated (but ambiguous) status science and technology associated with them. The last two chapters evaluate modes of discursive authority and its dissemination -- classical and modern extralinguistic approaches; the contemporary-linguistic view espoused by Rorty, Quine, and others; and their own avowedly experimental journey through the labyrinths of cultural and linguistic usage. |
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... Interpretations , and Performances Pragmatic Maxims , Performances , and Pedagogy The Last Words : Reading First Lines Notes Selected Bibliography Index 66 73 74 79 83 89 89 92 98 109 110 115 115 123 126 130 134 135 141 149 PREFACE We ...
... interpretation ) . Instead , we assume that , like any other inquiries , science and technology are conditioned by particular etymological and historical requirements , as well as specific interpretive and pragmatic demands . The issues ...
... interpretation , text , or narrative , the interpretations we offer in this book recall and reiterate that interpretation is an intervention that results in discursive displacement and not replacement . No replacement of one interpreta ...
... interpretations , it presents inter- pretations of interpretations , narratives about narratives , and critiques of critiques . The only privilege accorded our account is the privilege accorded any other metanarrative that situates ...
... interpretation , and that interpretation is informed culturally and linguistically ( that is , its significance remains open- ended ) , then it seems their interplay cannot be characterized in any petrified manner . One way of ...
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Fictional Visions of Science and Technology | 19 |
The Dissemination of Authority | 89 |
Selected Bibliography | 141 |
Index | 149 |