Galileo's pendulum : science, sexuality, and the body-instrument link / Dusan I. Bjelic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bjelić, Dušan I.

Series:

SUNY Series in Science, Technology, and Society

SUNY series in science, technology, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Methodology.

Science.

Ethnomethodology.

Pendulum.

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.

Galilei, Galileo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on the theories of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and others who have written on the history of sexuality and the body, Galileo's Pendulum explores how the emergence of the scientific method in the seventeenth century led to a de-emphasis on the body and sexuality. The first half of the book focuses on the historical modeling of the relation between pleasure and knowledge by examining a history of scientific rationality and its relation to the formation of the modern scientist's subjectivity. Relying on Foucault's history of sexuality, the author hypothesizes that Galileo's pendulum, as an extension of mathematics and the body, must have been sexualized by schemes of historical representation to the same extent that such schemes were rationalized by Galileo. The second half of the book explores the problems of scientific methodology and attempts to return the body in an explicit way to scientific practice. Ultimately, Galileo's Pendulum offers a discursive method and praxis for resexualizing the history of Galilean science.

Contents:

""GALILEO�S PENDULUM""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword by Michael Lynch""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: Pleasure""; ""1. Time, Pleasure, and Knowledge""; ""2. The Perversion of Objectivity and the Objectivity of Perversion""; ""3. The Jesuits� Homosocial Ties and the Experiments with Galileo�s Pendulum""; ""PART TWO: Pedagogy""; ""4. The“ Body-Instrument Link� and the Prism: A Case Study""; ""5. The Formal Structure of Galileo�s Pendulum""; ""6. The Respecification of Galileo�s Pendulum""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""FOREWORD""; ""INTRODUCTION""

""1. TIME, PLEASURE, AND KNOWLEDGE""""2. THE PERVERSION OF OBJECTIVITY AND THE OBJECTIVITY OF PERVERSION""; ""3. THE JESUITS� HOMOSOCIAL TIES AND THE EXPERIMENTS WITH GALILEO�S PENDULUM""; ""4. THE “BODY-INSTRUMENT LINK� AND THE PRISM: A CASE STUDY""; ""5. THE FORMAL STRUCTURE OF GALILEO�S PENDULUM""; ""6. THE RESPECIFICATION OF GALILEO�S PENDULUM""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-198) and index.

ISBN:

9780791486092

0791486095

9781417538737

1417538732

OCLC:

56418905