Public science in liberal democracy / / edited by Jene M. Porter and Peter W. B. Phillips

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780508703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007; ©2007
• ISBN: 1-4426-8472-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/3
• Soggetti: Democracy and science; Science and state; Research - Government policy; Conference papers and proceedings.; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Essays presented at a conference held in Saskatoon, Sask., October 2004.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: The History, Philosophy, and Practice of Public Science / Jene Porter and Peter W.B. Phillips -- Sect. 1. History of Public Science in Theory and Practice -- 1. Element Publicum / Larry Stewart -- 2. Science, Democracy, and Philosophy: From Marginal Achievements to Impossible Opportunities / Carl Mitcham -- 3. Public Geoscience at the Frontiers of Democracy / Deborah R. Hutchinson and Richard S. Williams, Jr. -- 4. Public Science, Society, and the Greenhouse Gas Debate / Peter J. Cook -- Sect. 2. Solutions to the Problems: Philosophic -- 5. Role of Humanities Policy in Public Science / Robert Frodeman -- 6. Science Studies Encounter with Public Science: Mertonian Norms, the Local Life of Science, and the Long Dure / Gordon McOuat -- 7. Democratic Deficit of Science and Its Possible Remedies / Ian Jarvie -- 8. New Atlantis Reconsidered / Leon Harold Craig -- 9. Expertise, Common Sense, and the Atkins Diet / Steven Shapin -- 10. Role of the Public Academic Scientist in the Twenty-first Century: Who Is Protecting the Public Interest? / Alan McHughen -- 11. Science Literacy Gap: Enabling Society to Critically Evaluate New ; Scientific Developments / Eric S. Sachs -- Sect. 3. Solutions to the Problems: Institutional -- 12. Science and Policymaking: The Legitimation Conundrum / Grace Skogstad and Sarah Hartley -- 13. Bringing Balance, Disclosure, and Due Diligence into Science-Based Policymaking / Ross McKitrick -- 14. Technoscience in an 'Illiberal' Democracy: The Internet and Genomics in Singapore / Zaheer Baber -- 15. Retaining Scientific Excellence in Setting Research Priorities: Lessons from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) / Christopher D. Gerrard -- 16. Toward Centres for Responsible Innovation in the Commercialized University / David Guston -- 17. Citizens and Biotechnology / Rahul K. Dhanda.
• Sommario/riassunto: This timely and thought-provoking collection makes an important contribution to the literature and will appeal to anyone interested in scientific research and its political and philosophical ramifications in democratic society.

Rendering French realism [[electronic resource] /] / Lawrence R. Schehr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783192603321
• Autore: Schehr Lawrence R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0-8047-8016-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 843/.70912
• Soggetti: French fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Realism in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-263) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. Introduction: De te textus -- 2. Stendhal's Inventions -- 3. Balzac's Improprieties -- 4. Romantic Interruptions -- 5. At Home with -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Realist novels are usually seen as verisimilar representations of the world, and even when that verisimilitude is critically examined (as it has ; been by Marxist and feminist critics), the criticism has referred to extra-literary matters, such as bourgeois ideology or defects in the portrayal of women. This book takes as its thesis that the point defining realism is the point at which the processes of representation break down, a sort of black hole of textuality, a rent in the tissue. The author argues that our notions of continuity, of readability, of representability, or our ideas about unity and ideological shift—or even our notions of what is hidden, occulted, or absent—all come from the nineteenth-century realist model itself. Instead of assuming representability, the author argues that we should look at places where the texts do not continue the representationalist model, where there is a sudden falling off, an abyss. Instead of seeing that point as a shortcoming, the author argues that it is equal to the mimetic successes of representation. After an initial chapter dealing with the limits and ruptures of textuality, the book considers the work of Stendhal, from its early state as a precursor to the later realism to La Chartreuse de Parme, which shows how the act of communication for Stendhal is always made of silences, gaps, and interruptions. The author then reads several works of Balzac, showing how he, while setting up the praxes of continuity on which his oeuvre depends, ruptures the works at various strategic points. In a chapter entitled "Romantic Interruptions," works of Nerval and the younger Dumas, seemingly unrelated to the realist project, are shown to be marked by the ideological, representational, and semiotic assumptions that produced Balzac. The book concludes with Flaubert, looking both at how Flaubert incessantly makes things "unfit" and how critics, even the most perspicacious postmodern ones, often try to smooth over the permanent crisis of rupture that is the sign of Flaubert's writing.