Galileo's Pendulum - Science, Sexuality, and the Body-Instrument Link (Hardcover, New)

Examines the history of science in light of recent theories of sexuality and the body. Drawing on the theories of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and others who have written on the history of sexuality and the body, Galileo's Pendulum explores how the emergence of the scientific method in the seventeenth century led to a de-emphasis on the body and sexuality. The first half of the book focuses on the historical modeling of the relation between pleasure and knowledge by examining a history of scientific rationality and its relation to the formation of the modern scientist's subjectivity. Relying on Foucault's history of sexuality, the author hypothesizes that Galileo's pendulum, as an extension of mathematics and the body, must have been sexualized by schemes of historical representation to the same extent that such schemes were rationalized by Galileo. The second half of the book explores the problems of scientific methodology and attempts to return the body in an explicit way to scientific practice. Ultimately, Galileo's Pendulum offers a discursive method and praxis for resexualizing the history of Galilean science.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series in Science, Technology, and Society
Release date:	October 2003
First published:	October 2003
Authors:	Dusan I. Bjelic
Foreword by:	Michael Lynch
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	221
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-5881-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
LSN:	0-7914-5881-4
Barcode:	9780791458815

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