Who Speaks for Nature? : : On the Politics of Science / / Laura Ephraim.
When natural scientists speak up in public about the material phenomena they have observed, measured, and analyzed in the lab or the field, they embody a distinctive version of political authority. Where does science derive its remarkably resilient, though often contested, capacity to give voice to...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Science Question in Political Theory
- Chapter 1. Earth to Arendt
- Chapter 2. Vico’s World of Nature
- Chapter 3. Descartes and Democracy
- Chapter 4. Hobbes’s Worldly Geometry of Politics
- Epilogue. Science and Politics at the End of the World
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments