Science, Hegemony and violence: a requiem for modernity (Record no. 37988)

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Classification number 306.4 SCI
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Personal name Nandy, Ashis, (ed.)
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Title Science, Hegemony and violence: a requiem for modernity
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1988
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Extent 301p.
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Summary, etc. The seven essays in this volume argue<br/>that a new kind of organized violence has<br/>been unleashed on the global scene,<br/>particularly in the third world, by the<br/>establishment of science in collaboration<br/>with the existing political and economic<br/>establishments. Starting from the premise<br/>that the worldview of modern science and<br/>technology in the late twentieth century has<br/>provided a 'legitimate' model of violence<br/>and domination, the essays examine the<br/>content of the 'rational patterns of<br/>behaviour and lifestyles being imposed on<br/>citizens in areas such as social organization,<br/>agriculture, medicine, environment and<br/>gender. The violence, the argument goes, is<br/>not an accidental byproduct of the practice<br/>of post-Enlightenment science but lies at<br/>the heart of the modern scientific vision.<br/>The distinguished contributors to the<br/>volume come from areas as diverse as<br/>physics, medicine, philosophy, ecology,<br/>environmental and civil rights movements,<br/>sociology and psychology. They were<br/>brought together for this purpose by the<br/>Committee for Cultural Choices and Global<br/>Futures, Delhi. The Committee is an<br/>association of scholars in search of a more<br/>holistic, politically sensitive, social<br/>knowledge and its concerns are the ecology<br/>of plural knowledge, cultural survival, and<br/>humane futures for the 'victims of history'.<br/>The work on which the volume is based<br/>was supported by the United Nations<br/>University as a part of the University's<br/>Programme on Peace and Global<br/>Transformation.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Science Social aspects
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