Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
It is not an easy task to transform the inarticulate mutterings of a multitude of entities that do not necessarily want to make ...
frightened of the dangers of cultural relativism have never had such a nightmare. It is important, however, that the upper house ...
ing more complicated than to discover and summon reliable wit- nesses capable of finding exactly the right speech impedimenta. Y ...
ever finding the risky experimental apparatus that would allow them to define their own problemsthemselvesinstead of simply answ ...
speak? These are the questions that keep the upper house in a con- stant state of agitation and that no form of incongruity, no ...
the problem of taking into account (“How many are we?”), the lower house asks the question “Who are we?” This “we” is variable i ...
says “Us,” a formidable clamor will respond: “Not us!” followed by nu- merous cries of “Not me!” Such is the greatness of this a ...
ests—with, to keep them on the straight and narrow, values all the more indisputable, in that they were at once fundamental and ...
compromise. Now, the investigation into the hierarchy of deals bears precisely upon propositions thatdo not yet know definitivel ...
the form that the lower house gives them now. With a single but es- sential difference: the compromises now are reached in an ex ...
ness we are retracing, modernism believed itself infinitely more moral than all its predecessors! The Old Regime appropriated es ...
audacity is required to prefer this exclusion based on the nature of things—on the things of nature—over an explicit, progressiv ...
about attachments end up with the definition of essences whose boundaries are finally fixed. The entities are now endowed with i ...
The old Constitution, even with the best of intentions, could not succeed in accomplishing any of these tasks, because it burden ...
to the requirement of consultation, but without awareness of the enor- mous amount of work it would take to produce opinion-hold ...
mon sense offers the collective the form that it might have in the future. When modernism is remote enough to be studied dispass ...
CHAPTER FIVE ▲▲▲ Exploring Common Worlds Through construction, the collective feeds on what remains outside, which it has not ye ...
the common world, thedemoshad grown accustomed to waiting for the help from on high of Science. In the absence of an appeal to t ...
out more rapidly still the little blood it had left.^2 Contrary to the threats of (political) epistemology, thedemosdid not suff ...
relativism, all that does not concern us and no longer has the vocation of summing up the history of our attachments. It is a di ...
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