From Epistemology to the Avant-garde
Marcel Duchamp and the Sociology of Knowledge in Resonance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2351605 |
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| Authors | Aaron Panofsky (0000-0001-7666-2359, New York University, corresponding author), Aaron L Panofsky (New York University) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-92 |
| Publication date | 2003-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276403020001921 |
| OpenAlex | W2161608814 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
This article argues that the sociology of knowledge as a critical subfield of sociology and the artist Marcel Duchamp are engaged in epistemologically analogous projects. Two sets of claims demonstrate the analogy: that Duchamp and the sociology of knowledge both have the same conception of and attitude toward their objects (respectively, art and knowledge/truth), and that they both mount similar critiques of the institutions they occupy (respectively, the art world and social science). A set of similar practices leads both to adopt an attitude of reflexivity which courts self-refutation by changing the ontological status of their objects and the epistemological status of their own practices. The analogy implies some new ways of thinking about the institutional role of the sociology of knowledge, the practice and epistemology of sociology, and perhaps the epistemic character of modernism
Aesthetics · Analogy · Character (mathematics · Epistemology · Modernism (music · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Art History and Market Analysis · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Mathematics · Philosophy
Phenomenology and sociology
Science as Power
The structure of scientific revolutions
Studies in ethnomethodology
The social construction of reality
Knowledge and social imagery
The science question in feminism
The dialectic of enlightenment
Feminism and Methodology
The phenomenology of the social world
Ideology and Utopia
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Logic of Practice
The Order of Things
I.1 The Work of a Discovering Science Construed with Materials from the Optically Discovered Pulsar
The Social Construction of What
Ideology and utopia
Theory of the Avant-Garde
The Image of Objectivity
The specificity of the scientific field and the social conditions of the progress of reason
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology
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