Narrative Experiments

The Discursive Authority of Science and Technology

1989
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Authors:

Gayle L. Ormiston and Raphael Sassower

“Although this book’s purpose is to show that scientific knowledge is construed discursively like any other knowledge, its originality does not consist solely in this argument ... Instead, it comes from the authors’ use of literary analysis -- deconstruction, close reading, and etymological devices -- to understand the discourse of science. The result is nothing less than a brilliant series of refutations of some widely held beliefs.”

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Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center

Gayle L. Ormiston is a professor in the department of philosophy and the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University.

Raphael Sassower is a professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

“Although this book’s purpose is to show that scientific knowledge is construed discursively like any other knowledge, its originality does not consist solely in this argument ... Instead, it comes from the authors’ use of literary analysis -- deconstruction, close reading, and etymological devices -- to understand the discourse of science. The result is nothing less than a brilliant series of refutations of some widely held beliefs.”

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Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center