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Another Look: Relearning to Laugh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Isabelle Stengers
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Abstract

It may be that denouncing the ideals of objectivity or neutrality associated with the sciences leads us into a trap: that of accepting, in order to criticize it, that there would be a common identity for the many ways to produce science. Learning to laugh, we choose to laugh with and laugh at. But we accept the risk of being interested, that is, of giving up the position of a judge.

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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Contemporary French Women Philosophers , Fall 2000, pp. 41 - 54
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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