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Reconfiguring Truth
Steven C. Ward
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Overview
This refreshingly original book links the postmodern critique of notions such as "reality" and "truth" with approaches to knowledge found in science and technology studies (STS), a field also discontent with traditional epistemology. Exploring STS approaches to knowledge, such as actor-network theory, Ward forges a path through the impasse of the modernism vs. postmodernism debate. "Reconfiguring Knowledge" is an important work for social scientists and theorists, philosophers, historians, and scholars of science and technology.Author Biography: Steven C. Ward is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Connecticut State University.
Editorials
Contemporary Sociology
a serious and important contribution to sociological theory.— Kelly Moore, Columbia University
Choice
. . . a worthwile book, and it provides a good starting point for people interested in current debates in science studies.Long overdue . . . the first sober attempt to locate the recent science studies literature in the sociology of knowledge tradition. The book should prove accessible to both teachers and students.
One of the most lucid and knowledgeable expositions of postmodernism and its paradoxes as one can find in the literature.
Contemporary Sociology -
a serious and important contribution to sociological theory.. . . a worthwile book, and it provides a good starting point for people interested in current debates in science studies.
Book Details
Published
August 28, 1996
Publisher
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1996.
Pages
186
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780847682607