On the Alleged Distinction Between Discourse and Praxis
- 1 May 1986
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Social Studies of Science
- Vol. 16 (2) , 309-317
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312786016002006
Abstract
Recent criticisms of work in the social study of science depend upon a misconception of the strategic theoretical significance of the notion of `discourse'. This arises because the earlier continental sense of `discourse' has been `anglicized'. The constitutive epistemology of French post-structuralism, which presumes a congruence between discourse and praxis, has been neglected in favour of the realist concerns of empirical research in the Anglo-Saxon social study of science.Keywords
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