Pandora's Hope

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Bruno Latour

页数:336

出版时间:1999-6-30

价格:GBP 24.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780674653368

图书标签:LatourSTS人类学社会学理论书打基础法国有用的书Theory

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "bête noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most philosophically informed book since Science in Action. Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur's lab studying the fermentation of lactic acid, he shows us the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge. Through many examples in the world of technology, we see how the material and human worlds come together and are reciprocally transformed in this process.Why, Latour asks, did the idea of an independent reality, free of human interaction, emerge in the first place? His answer to this question, harking back to the debates between Might and Right narrated by Plato, points to the real stakes in the so-called science wars: the perplexed submission of ordinary people before the warring forces of claimants to the ultimate truth.

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我读了其中的一些章节，清晰流畅，令人欣赏。

我读了其中的一些章节，清晰流畅，令人欣赏。

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比We Have Never been Modern多了文人的情怀性写作，对它讨论的“科学”主体进行了很详细的案例延展。

Latour,只怪我修行不夠。