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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Page 133
... vivisection relates to the very content of science . III Between the Descartian machine and the vivisectional code there lies a vital difference . The Descartian machine was not half as hegemonic as the latter . The ritualistic ...
... vivisection relates to the very content of science . III Between the Descartian machine and the vivisectional code there lies a vital difference . The Descartian machine was not half as hegemonic as the latter . The ritualistic ...
Page 139
... vivisection . While the violence of the old frontier was softened by Christian and humanist values , the violence of vivisectionist science is indifferent to context . The frontier was physical space , and thus subject to physical ...
... vivisection . While the violence of the old frontier was softened by Christian and humanist values , the violence of vivisectionist science is indifferent to context . The frontier was physical space , and thus subject to physical ...
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... vivisection , which has acquired a central and permanent status within science , has now become totally banal . The pervasive everydayness of it covers the metaphysical shock one would otherwise have experienced . Today , over a hundred ...
... vivisection , which has acquired a central and permanent status within science , has now become totally banal . The pervasive everydayness of it covers the metaphysical shock one would otherwise have experienced . Today , over a hundred ...
Contents
Francis Bacon the First Philosopher of Modern | 24 |
A Luddite View | 68 |
The Career of an Imagination | 113 |
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