Galileo's pendulum : science, sexuality, and the body-instrument link /
"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."--Jacket
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2003.
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Collection: | SUNY series in science, technology, and society.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Machine generated contents note: Foreword / Michael Lynch
- pt. 1 Pleasure
- 1. Time, Pleasure, and Knowledge
- 2. Perversion of Objectivity and the Objectivity of Perversion
- 3. Jesuits' Homosocial Ties and the Experiments with Galileo's Pendulum
- pt. 2 Pedagogy
- 4. "Body-Instrument Link" and the Prism: A Case Study
- 5. Formal Structure of Galileo's Pendulum
- 6. Respecification of Galileo's Pendulum.