Rethinking Objectivity
by Megill, Allan; Fish, Stanley Eugene; Jameson, Fredric; Barnes, Barry (CON)Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-09-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary
"Once objectivity was overwhelmingly viewed as an unproblematic quality of knowledge or posture of the knower. Now it is increasingly treated as a contingent, varying, and deeply problematic product of cultural practice. There is no better testament than Allan Megill's "Rethinking Objectivity" to the current interdisciplinary diversity and vigor of academic interest in the topic of objectivity."--Steven Shapin, University of California, San Diego
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Four Senses of Objectivity | |
| How Not To Do the Sociology of Knowledge | |
| Baconian Facts, Academic Civility, and the Prehistory of Objectivity | |
| Why Science Isn't Literature: The Importance of Differences | |
| Ethnographic Objectivity Revisited: From Rigor to Vigor | |
| Objectivity and the Mangle of Practice | |
| The Shapes of Objectivity: Siegfried Kracauer on Historiography and Photography | |
| From Objectivity to Objectification: Feminist Objections | |
| Who Cares? The Poverty of Objectivism for a Moral Epistemology | |
| Objectivity as Standardization: The Rhetoric of Impersonality in Measurement, Statisitics, and Cost-Benefit Analysis | |
| Accounting and Objectivity: The Invention of Calculating Selves and Calculable Spaces | |
| The Mechanical Self and the Rhetoric of Objectivity | |
| The Unquiet Judge: Activism without Objectivism in Law and Politics | |
| The Paradox of Scientific Subjectivity | |
| Contributors | |
| Index | |
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