Toward a History of Epistemic Things

Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube

By:

Hans-Jorg Rheinberger

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Writing Science

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In this powerful work of conceptual and analytical originality, the author argues for the primacy of the material arrangements of the laboratory in the dynamics of modern molecular biology. In a post-Kuhnian move away from the hegemony of theory, he develops a new epistemology of experimentation in which research is treated as a process for producing epistemic things. A central concern of the book is the basic question of how novelty is generated in the empirical sciences. In addressing this question, the author brings French poststructuralist thinking notably Jacques Derrida s concepts of diffZrance and historiality to bear on the construction of epistemic things. Historiographical perspective shifts from the actors minds to their objects of manipulation.

Release date Australia

July 1st, 1997

Author

Hans-Jorg Rheinberger

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

340

Series

Writing Science

Dimensions

153x229x20

ISBN-13

9780804727860

Product ID

3687304

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