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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... particular etymological and historical requirements , as well as specific interpretive and pragmatic demands . The issues typically associated with scientific investigation and technological innovation can no longer be comprehended as ...
... particular group or generation of indi- viduals , are conditioned and rendered possible by the current histori- cal , material , and intellectual culture . Even though the field of this inquiry is diverse , the study of the in- terplay ...
... particular branch of knowledge . Here science — the word and the activity , it should be noted - is used in a more restricted fashion . It is identified with " a connected body of demonstrated truths or with observed facts ...
... particular rubric , are conditioned by and products of the interplay between science and technology . As the etymologies suggest , the value of words , concepts , and activities — in this case , science and technology — is bound to a ...
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Fictional Visions of Science and Technology | 19 |
The Dissemination of Authority | 89 |
Selected Bibliography | 141 |
Index | 149 |