• 主题
高级搜索  >
历史搜索 清空历史
首页> 外文期刊>Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology >On Moral Science: The Problematic Politics of Stuart Kauffman's Order
【24h】

On Moral Science: The Problematic Politics of Stuart Kauffman's Order

机译：道德科学：斯图尔特·考夫曼秩序的问题政治

获取原文
获取原文并翻译 | 示例
           
页面导航
  • 摘要
  • 著录项
  • 相似文献
  • 相关主题

摘要

By now Jean-Francois Lyotard's interrogation of science operating under "the postmodern condition" is well known: scientific discourse cannot be legitimated via any process internal to that discourse, but is achieved via one of several metanarratives that lie outside science itself. The caveat is that the postmodern condition is characterized (in Lyotard's judgment) by an "incredulity toward metanarratives," which, if true, disrupts any possibility for a consistent ground to scientific practice. In What Is Postmodernism? Charles Jencks correctly ascribes Lyotard's metanarratives to their modern humanistic roots, but denies the contention that the postmodern era has in fact been one characterized by incredulity. He states that, rather than either witnessing or engendering the end of metanarratives, postmodernism has in fact been a period of their proliferation. Moreover, in an attempt to replace those certain metanarratives that he and Lyotard abhor, Jencks offers one that he understands to rid the world of the humanistic vestiges of modernity, one developed by scientific theory and practice: "We do not live in an era in which all beliefs have become non-credible, but rather at the beginning of an emergent global culture with a new metanarrative—the story of the universe." Postmodern science gives not only to itself, but to everyone and everything, the creation myth to beat all creation myths. Of this new myth, Jencks writes: "It would certainly replace humanism—man as the measure of all things—with the larger picture in which the cosmos is the measure of all things. It could give direction, orientation and meaning to human activity, but not in a reductive anthropocentrism." Perhaps. However, when he next contends that "stars and planets inevitably evolve out of gas and exhibit a new kind of teleology," we must question Jencks's use of science to explain and justify social, political, and cultural phenomena.
机译：到目前为止，让·弗朗索瓦·利奥塔（Jean-Francois Lyotard）对在“后现代条件”下运作的科学的审讯是众所周知的：科学话语不能通过该话语内部的任何过程来合法化，而可以通过科学之外的几种元叙事之一来实现。需要注意的是，后现代条件的特征（根据利奥塔德的判断）以“对叙事的迷恋”为特征，如果属实，那么它将破坏为科学实践提供一致基础的任何可能性。在什么是后现代主义中？查尔斯·詹克斯（Charles Jencks）正确地将利奥塔（Lyotard）的叙事性归因于其现代人本主义根源，但否认了关于后现代时代实际上具有怀疑性特征的争论。他指出，后现代主义不是见证或促成元叙事的结束，而是实际上是其扩散的时期。此外，为了取代他和利奥塔（Lyotard）所憎恶的某些叙事性叙述，詹克斯提供了一种他理解为摆脱世界人性化的现代主义痕迹的方法，这种现代主义是由科学理论和实践发展起来的：“我们不生活在一个当今时代。所有的信念都变得难以置信，而是在新兴的全球文化开始时出现了一种新的叙事方式，即宇宙的故事。”后现代科学不仅给自己，而且给每个人和一切，赋予了创造神话，击败了所有创造神话。关于这个新神话，詹克斯写道：“它肯定会取代人类作为万物的尺度，而更大的画面是宇宙是万物的尺度。它可以为人类活动提供方向，方向和意义，但不是还原性的人类中心主义。”也许。但是，当他接下来主张“恒星和行星不可避免地从气体中演化并展现出一种新型的目的论”时，我们必须质疑詹克斯使用科学来解释和证明社会，政治和文化现象的合理性。

著录项

相似文献

  • 外文文献
  • 中文文献
  • 专利
获取原文

客服邮箱：kefu@zhangqiaokeyan.com

京公网安备：11010802029741号 ICP备案号：京ICP备15016152号-6 六维联合信息科技 (北京) 有限公司©版权所有

  • 客服微信

  • 服务号