Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube Rheinberger Hans-JorgPaperback
Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube Rheinberger Hans-JorgPaperback In this powerful work of conceptual and analytical originality, the author argues for the…
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Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube Rheinberger Hans-JorgPaperback
In this powerful work of conceptual and analytical originality, the author argues for the primacy of the material arrangements of the laboratory in the dynamics of modern molecular biology. A central concern of the book is the basic question of how novelty is generated in the empirical sciences. In a post-Kuhnian move away from the hegemony of theory, he develops a new epistemology of experimentation in which research is treated as a process for producing epistemic things.
Historiographical perspective shifts from the actors minds to their objects of manipulation. In addressing this question, the author brings French poststructuralist thinking notably Jacques Derrida s concepts of diffZrance and historiality to bear on the construction of epistemic things.