book: Toward a Democratic Science: Scientific Narration and Civic Communication

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	• Toward a Democratic Science: Scientific Narration and Civic Communication Richard Harvey Brown Yale University Press, 1998 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Brown's intervention is itself a science beyond science.

In Toward a Democratic Science, Brown opens the radical possibility of an outside to science, an outside which can already be glimpse within science, through its various rhetorical devices and means of becoming engaged and therefore more democratic. Situating the question of democracy, not within the often limited standards of political argumentation which point either to liberal or conservative sentiments (while both sides denounce any new form of socialism), Brown seeks to rescue science as the vent of the democratic, as that singular activity with which we can unravel the closures of world representation and make new ones.

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In this important book, a leading authority in the field of social theory and communication shows how science is a rhetorical and narrative activity-a story well told. Richard Harvey Brown argues that expert knowledge is a form of power and explains how a narrative view of science can integrate science within a democratic civic discourse, as in the movement for environmental justice in the United States.