Scientific Discourse and Postmodernity
"Francis Bacon and the Empirical Birth of "Revision
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11327753 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald Gillespie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 119 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/303080 |
| OpenAlex | W2332614770 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Good faith demands that broad speculations about culture be so labeled. Admittedly, this paper speculates about matters which may seem at best tenuously related: on the one hand, the emergence of scientific discourse, its influence, and its originally anti-traditionalist program in the Anglo-American world; on the other hand, the revaluative, transformational, and apocalyptic thought of Postmodernism. My purpose is not to erect a grandiose thesis, such as that repeated lapses of cultural memory enable us unconsciously to imitate an earlier key set of ideas and strategies vis-a-vis our own tradition. Yet, since reformation and renaissance were long ago elevated as guiding concepts of Anglo-American culture, the process of change may well have required eventually that we forget we are repeating a pattern, in order to forestall a genuine rebellion against the sustaining myth of transformation itself. For example, resistance to further questioning of the epochal transformation of culture soon appeared in Protestantism, which from the start developed its own conservative strains. Moreover, if to some extent today we merely imagine we are rejecting and superseding a heritage (which, paradoxically enough, is characterized by progress), then it follows that when the logic of our denial of tenacious paradigms does indeed conduct to antinomian or nihilistic
Epistemology · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Sociology · Anthropology · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |