Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 384 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0816616582
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0816616590
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0816682771
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9780816616589
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9780816616596
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9780816682775
Content:
Science has established itself as not merely the dominant but the only legitimate form of human knowledge. By tying its truth claims to methodology, science has claimed independence from the influence of social and historical conditions. Here, Aronowitz asserts that the norms of science are by no means self-evident and that science is best seen as a socially constructed discourse that legitimates its power by presenting itself as truth
Content:
Preface; Part I; 1. Science and Technology as Hegemony; 2. Marx 1: Science as Social Relations; 3. Marx 2: The Scientific Theory of Society; Part II; 4. Engels and the Return to Epistemology; 5. The Frankfurt School: Science and Technology as Ideology; 6. Habermas: The Retreat from the Critique; 7. Marxism as a Positive Science; 8. Soviet Science: The Scientific and Technological Revolution; Part III; 9. The Breakup of Certainty: History and Philosophy of Modern Physics; 10. The Science of Sociology and the Sociology of Science
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0816616590
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Aronowitz, Stanley Science as power Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1988
Language:
English
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