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Science, Hegemony, and Violence: A Requiem for Modernity reprint Edition
Author(s): Ashis Nandy
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
- Publication Date: 8 Nov. 1990
- Edition: reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 309 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195625803
- ISBN-13: 9780195625806
Book Description
This volume presents six essays by leading sociologists, philosophers, physicists, and environmental activists that examine the links between science and violence from the Baconian era to the present day. It looks at two basic issues: science as it provides a new justification for state violence; and science as violent technological intervention, invading and disrupting stable patterns of private life in the name of progress and development.
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"Deserve[s] the serious and sustained attention not only of persons interested in science, technology, and society but of everyone concerned with a population and a planet under siege."--Contemporary Sociology
