Nach dem Wissen: Wissenschaft zwischen Deregulation und Restauration

After Knowledge: Science, Deregulation, and Restoration. In the light of recent phenomena and developments – from ‘alternative facts’ to the rise of the ‘New Right’ –, the notion that we live in a ‘knowledge society’ (which has served our discipline well over the last couple of decades) seems more t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 2018-12, Vol.41 (4), p.359-362
Hauptverfasser: Grütter, Fabian, Güttler, Nils, Stadler, Max, Wulz, Monika
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Zusammenfassung:After Knowledge: Science, Deregulation, and Restoration. In the light of recent phenomena and developments – from ‘alternative facts’ to the rise of the ‘New Right’ –, the notion that we live in a ‘knowledge society’ (which has served our discipline well over the last couple of decades) seems more than a little antiquated. Our present, or so it would seem, is determined by forces other than ‘knowledge’ or, for that matter ‘science’. By the same token, ‘knowledge’ has lost traction for the purposes of a historiography trying to keep abreast with the times. At this impasse, we propose that historians of science embrace our predicament head‐on. They should take a more serious interest in the trajectories that brought us here: that is, in recent history and the political and ideological projects which shaped it. We suggest two complementary concepts along which such analyses might proceed: deregulation and restoration.
ISSN:0170-6233
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DOI:10.1002/bewi.201801932