Science, Hegemony and Violence: A Requiem for ModernityAshis Nandy This volume presents six essays by leading sociologists, philosophers, physicists, and environmental activists that examine the links between science and violence from the Baconian era to the present day. It looks at two basic issues: science as it provides a new justification for state violence; and science as violent technological intervention, invading and disrupting stable patterns of private life in the name of progress and development. |
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... worldview . As Britain took the lead in institutionalizing this worldview and as Britain in that epoch ruled not only the waves and thus also the mind and manners of men over the globe , this new creed was eagerly accepted in different ...
... worldview . As Britain took the lead in institutionalizing this worldview and as Britain in that epoch ruled not only the waves and thus also the mind and manners of men over the globe , this new creed was eagerly accepted in different ...
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... worldview is a totalitarian world- view : it compels universal acceptance of its postulates , without providing an equivalent ' scientific ' argument for such accept- ance . While the method demands that teleology must be kept out of ...
... worldview is a totalitarian world- view : it compels universal acceptance of its postulates , without providing an equivalent ' scientific ' argument for such accept- ance . While the method demands that teleology must be kept out of ...
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... worldview intact . The tragedy of the commons is in fact the tragedy of rationality and science , of a worldview which has so lost its sense of the sacred that it fails to see that science - rationalist , hegemonic , value- neutral ...
... worldview intact . The tragedy of the commons is in fact the tragedy of rationality and science , of a worldview which has so lost its sense of the sacred that it fails to see that science - rationalist , hegemonic , value- neutral ...
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Francis Bacon the First Philosopher of Modern | 24 |
A Luddite View | 68 |
The Career of an Imagination | 113 |
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