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Red, black, and objective : science, sociology, and anarchism / Sal Restivo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Restivo, Sal P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 224 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]
- Summary:
- Restivo (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) presents an anarchist paradigm for analyzing science and its relation to society, ranging across a broad range of issues of scientific theory, practices, values, and policy and engaging with an equally broad range of thinkers, including the anarchist geographer Peter Kropotkin, Paul Feyerabend, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and Emil Durkheim. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Objectivity revisited and revised
- The social theory of objectivity and its problems
- Sociology : a Copernican revolution changes how we think about science and mathematics
- Science studies : sociological theory and social criticism
- Math studies and the anarchist agenda
- Anarchism and modern science
- What's mind got to do with it?
- Science, religion, and anarchism : the end of God and the beginning of inquiry
- A manifesto in anarcho-sociology
- Appendix. A dialogue on the syllogism with philosopher Jean Paul van Bendegem (JP), Free University of Brussels.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409410393
- 1409410390
- 9781409410409
- 1409410404
- OCLC:
- 709407860
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