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Michel Foucault wrote that science is a language of power. His adoption of Francis Bacon’s coupling of knowledge and power enabled him to equate Enlightenment science with oppression. More recent postmodern critics of science have taken their cue from Foucault’s work, and have argued that science is, among other things, a hegemonic form of Eurocentric male domination. These and similar claims prompted the now-famous “Sokal Hoax,” in which mathematical physicist Alan Sokal combined postmodern language and analysis with various elements of quantum physics to produce a parody on a possible postmodern approach to science. The article’s publication in Social Text sparked a debate over the nature and role of modern science, a debate which gains ever more relevance when considered on a global cultural scale.
The goals of this paper are to explore the adoption and/or rejection of western science in certain developing countries, and to outline what certain postmodern critics of science have said about the role of western science on a cultural level. Themes such as imperialism, universalism, and cultural particularism will be particularly emphasized. |
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| Judd, Diana. "A Language of Power: Is Natural Science a Form of Western Oppression?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Sheraton Harborside Hotel and Conference Center, Portsmouth, ME, Apr 30, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p89977_index.html> |
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| Judd, D. , 2004-04-30 "A Language of Power: Is Natural Science a Form of Western Oppression?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Sheraton Harborside Hotel and Conference Center, Portsmouth, ME Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p89977_index.html |
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Abstract: Michel Foucault wrote that science is a language of power. His adoption of Francis Bacon’s coupling of knowledge and power enabled him to equate Enlightenment science with oppression. More recent postmodern critics of science have taken their cue from Foucault’s work, and have argued that science is, among other things, a hegemonic form of Eurocentric male domination. These and similar claims prompted the now-famous “Sokal Hoax,” in which mathematical physicist Alan Sokal combined postmodern language and analysis with various elements of quantum physics to produce a parody on a possible postmodern approach to science. The article’s publication in Social Text sparked a debate over the nature and role of modern science, a debate which gains ever more relevance when considered on a global cultural scale.
The goals of this paper are to explore the adoption and/or rejection of western science in certain developing countries, and to outline what certain postmodern critics of science have said about the role of western science on a cultural level. Themes such as imperialism, universalism, and cultural particularism will be particularly emphasized. |
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| A LANGUAGE OF POWER: IS NATURAL SCIENCE A FORM OF WESTERN OPPRESSION? Diana M. Judd Assistant Professor of Political Science Borough of Manhattan Community College City University of New York Prepared for the New England Political Science Association Meeting May 2004 2 Warnings and accusations that Enlightenment reason and science would lead to the dissolution or even enslavement of mankind in one way or another are hardly a recent phenomenon. They are nearly as old as the Enlightenment itself |
| essence and demoted to the level of repressive ideology. In these critiques universalism becomes imperialism. Reason and logic become outmoded and repressive artifacts of a dominant culture. Freedom becomes relative and truth becomes impossible. In such an intellectual milieu disagreement with and resistance to such fashionable nonsense is all but futile. 109 Ibid. p. 250. 110 Sokal “A Plea for Reason Evidence and Logic” ed. by Lingua Franca The Sokal Hoax p. 250. 111 Weinberg Dreams of a Final |
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