Science, Hegemony and Violence
A Requiem for Modernity
Will be published approx. on 8. November 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
309 pages
978-0-19-562580-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-562580-6 (9780195625806)
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Person
Content
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