Buch, Englisch, 309 Seiten
A Requiem for Modernity
Buch, Englisch, 309 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-19-562580-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Commissioned by the United Nations University, the essays in this book focus on varying aspects of two basic issues: firstly, science as it provides justification for state violence and aristocracy; and secondly, science as violent technological intervention, which invades and disrupts private and stable patterns of life in the name of progress and development.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface; Ashis Nandy: Introduction: Science as a reason of state; Jatinder K. Bajaj: Francis Bacon: the first philosopher of modern science; Claude Alvares: Science, colonialism and violence: A Luddite view; Shiv Visvanathan: Atomic Physics: The career of an imagination; Manu L. Kothar & Lopa Mehta: The crisis of expertise in modern medicine; Veena Das: Technology and victimhood in popular fiction: Four novels of Ira Levin; Vandan Shiva: Reductionist science as epistemological violence; Shiv Visvanathan: From the annals of the laboratory state; List of contributors




