Science is politics by other means
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| - | "[[Science is politics by other means]]" is a dictum found in [[Sandra Harding]]'s book ''[[Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?|Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives]]'' (1991), but the phrase also occurs on page 229 in Bruno Latour's ''[[The Pasteurization of France]]'' (1987). It is a variation of "[[war is the continuation of politics by other means]]" by [[Carl von Clausewitz]]. | + | "'''Science is [...] politics by other means'''" is a dictum by [[Bruno Latour]] first recorded in ''[[The Pasteurization of France|Pasteur: Guerre et paix des microbes]]'' (1984) as "la science, c’est la politique continuée par d’autres moyens". In the English translation it reads: "Science is [...] politics by other means" (p. 229). |
| + | The dictum is a variation of "[[war is the continuation of politics by other means]]" by [[Carl von Clausewitz]]. | ||
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| + | It was appropriated without credit in [[Sandra Harding]]'s book ''[[Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?]]'' (1991). | ||
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Science and politics]] | ||
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"Science is [...] politics by other means" is a dictum by Bruno Latour first recorded in Pasteur: Guerre et paix des microbes (1984) as "la science, c’est la politique continuée par d’autres moyens". In the English translation it reads: "Science is [...] politics by other means" (p. 229).
The dictum is a variation of "war is the continuation of politics by other means" by Carl von Clausewitz.
It was appropriated without credit in Sandra Harding's book Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (1991).
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