Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields

Donna Haraway is perhaps our most advanced scientific storyteller. She locates the myths, metaphors, and tropes that underlie a technologically companionable physical world. Without abandoning scientific method--in fact, by embracing it in its fullest applicability--she exposes and also celebrates our scientific narratives as our clan story. In the process she 'outs' our most fundamental distinctions and unexamined paradoxes: nature/culture, wild/domesticated, molecular/organic, animal/human, body/gender, et al. Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields is the first chapter of Haraway's epic tale of Western science. When she names it 'metaphors that shape embryos, ' it should be clear that embryos also shape her metaphors, for she brilliantly illuminates the origin and dependence of each in each other. Donna Haraway is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz.

出版者:North Atlantic Books

作者:Donna Jeanne Haraway

页数:256

出版时间:2004-2

价格:CDN$ 20.95

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9781556434747

图书标签:STSHarawayBiologyFeminism

Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change into this wide-ranging analysis, emphasizing the role of model, analogy, and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical system in biology must have a central metaphor.

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我算是这位奇女子的粉丝了。本书应是较难的一本，从生物学角度谈论范式等方法论问题，也难怪，Haraway原本便是生物学出身。

我算是这位奇女子的粉丝了。本书应是较难的一本，从生物学角度谈论范式等方法论问题，也难怪，Haraway原本便是生物学出身。

我算是这位奇女子的粉丝了。本书应是较难的一本，从生物学角度谈论范式等方法论问题，也难怪，Haraway原本便是生物学出身。