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Article: Latour, Musil, and the discourse of nonmodernity.(general articles)
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- January 1, 2003
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In the January 14, 2000 issue of the journal Science, Stephen Jay Gould published an article titled "Deconstructing the 'Science Wars' by Reconstructing an Old Mold," referring to the familiar conflict between scientific realists and humanist social constructivists. The primary battleground is whether science describes a world it finds ready-made or makes that world in the process of "discovering" it: whether "reality" is a product of nature or culture. Gould is not the first to characterize this dispute. In 1956 C. P. Snow referred to science and the humanities as "two cultures" having less and less to do with each other. A more recent--and a spectacular--battle was Alan ...