How to Talk About the Body? the Normative Dimension of Science Studies
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- 1 June 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Body & Society
- Vol. 10 (2-3) , 205-229
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034x04042943
Abstract
Science studies has often been against the normative dimension of epistemology, which made a naturalistic study of science impossible. But this is not to say that a new type of normativity cannot be detected at work inscience studies. This is especially true in the second wave of studies dealing with the body, which has aimed at criticizing the physicalization of the body without falling into the various traps of a phenomenology simply added to a physical substrate. This article explores the work of Isabelle Stengers and Vinciane Despret in that respect, and shows how it can be used to rethink the articulation between the various levels that make up a body.Keywords
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