New Ways of Knowing: The Sciences, Society, and Reconstructive Knowledge PDF
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New Ways of Knowing NEW WAYS OF KNOWING The Sciences, Society, and Reconstructive Knowledge BY MARCUS G. RASKIN 8c HERBERT J. BERNSTEIN WITH SUSAN BUCK-MORSS • NOAM CHOMSKY MICHAEL GOLDHABER * EDWARD HERMAN JOSEPH TURNER Rowman 8c Littlefield PUBLISHERS Published in the United States of America in 1987 by Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers (a division of Littlefield, Adams & Company) 81 Adams Drive, Totowa, New Jersey 07512 Copyright © 1987 by Rowman 8c Littlefield All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Raskin, Marcus G. New ways of knowing. Includes index. 1. Knowledge, Theory of. 2. Social sciences. 3. Science. 1. Bernstein, Herbert J. II. Buck-Morss, Susan. 111. Title BD161.R33 1987 121 87-4492 ISBN 0-8476-7462-2 ISBN 0-8476-7463-0 (pbk.) 91 89 87 88 90 5 3 1 2 4 Printed in the United States of America For our wives, Lynn Randels and Mary Bernstein, participants and colleagues Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction Herbert J. Bernstein i 1 Reconstruction and Its Knowledge Method Marcus G. Raskin 8 2 Idols of Modern Science and the Reconstruction of Knowledge Herbert J. Bernstein 37 3 Toward a Reconstructive Political Science Marcus G. Raskin and Herbert J. Bernstein 69 4 Exchanges on Reconstructive Knowledge Noam Chomsky and Marcus G. Raskin 104 5 Ending the Faustian Bargain Marcus G. Raskin 157 6 The Human Meaning of the Information Revolution Michael Goldhaber 167 7 The Selling of Market Economics Edward Herman 173 8 Semiotic Boundaries and the Politics of Meaning: Modernity on Tour—A Village in Transition Susan Buck-Morss 200 9 Seizing Power / Grasping Truth Joseph Turner 237 10 Conclusion: A Manifesto of Reconstructive Knowledge Marcus G. Raskin 268 Index 287 Acknowledgments We thank our colleagues at the Institute for Policy Studies, its trans national affilitate (TNI) and Hampshire College for their participation and support of work on reconstructive knowledge. We have benefited greatly from forthright criticisms and spirited discussions. We are especially thankful to another group whom we count as part of the invisible college of support. They act in their own lives in ways that make clear that knowledge and affection are linked and important guides to inquiry and action: Ed Janss, Cora Weiss, Peter Weiss, Phil Stern, Ann Janss, Mel Raskin, Helen Hopps, Diana de Vegh, Joseph Duffey, Richard Falk, Rusty Garth, Deborah Gunn, Evelyn Fox Keller, Joseph Leggett, Felicia Lynch, Larraine Matusak, Jack Tooley, Everett Mendelsohn, Harriet Barlow, Sidney Shapiro, the Levinson family, Adele Simmons, Bernard Weissbourd, Gibson Winter. We wish to thank Ron Gross, Julianne Halberstein, Jill Lawrenz, Rachel Fershko, Robert Neill, Linda McCormack, Roberta Rosenau, Nancy Fuchs. All have helped at critical stages in the preparation of the manuscript and the continuation of the knowledge project. Finally, we wish to thank our children, who suffered through innu merable telephone conversations between the authors and wrho urged us onward—some with criticism and praise—all with love. Erika Raskin Littlewood, Jamin Ben Raskin, Noah Annan Raskin, Eden McArtor Raskin, Carolyn Joy Bernstein, Laila Jael Bernstein, and Keith Little- wood.
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