Reconfiguring Truth: Postmodernism, Science Studies, and the Search for a New Model of Knowledge

by Steven C. Ward

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847682607
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/04/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Steven C. Ward is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Connecticut State University.

Editorial Reviews

.. . a worthwile book, and it provides a good starting point for people interested in current debates in science studies.

Choice Reviews

One of the most lucid and knowledgeable expositions of postmodernism and its paradoxes as one can find in the literature.

Stephan Fuchs

a serious and important contribution to sociological theory.

Contemporary Sociology - Kelly Moore

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.

Steve Fuller

.. . a worthwile book, and it provides a good starting point for people interested in current debates in science studies.

Choice

.. . a worthwile book, and it provides a good starting point for people interested in current debates in science studies.

CHOICE

a serious and important contribution to sociological theory.
— Kelly Moore, Columbia University

Contemporary Sociology

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.” —Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, author of Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era

“One of the most lucid and knowledgeable expositions of postmodernism and its paradoxes as one can find in the literature.” —Stephan Fuchs, University of Virginia

“a serious and important contribution to sociological theory.” —Kelly Moore, Columbia University, Contemporary Sociology

“. . . a worthwile book, and it provides a good starting point for people interested in current debates in science studies.” —Choice Reviews

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