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Nineteen eighty-four : science between utopia and dystopia / edición, Everett Mendelsohn ; Helga Nowotny. - Dordrecht ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; c1984. - 303 p. ; 23 cm. - (Sociology of the sciences : a yearbook ; 8) . - Sociology of the sciences ; v. 8. .

Incluye bibliografía e índice.

Part I. Introduction Science and utopia: on the social ordering / Helga Nowotny. p. 3-20. Part II. Science and Utopia in history Science and utopia: the history of a dilemma / J. C. Davis. p. 21-48. Elias Artista: a precursor of the Messiah in Natural science / Herbert Breger. p. 49-72. The explosion of the circle: science and negative utopia / Michael Winter. p. 73-92. Part III. Socialism, science and utopia From utopia to science? the develpment of socialist teheory between utopia and science / Kurt Bayertz. p. 93-110. Bogdanov's Red Star: an early bolshevik science utopia / Loren Graham. p.111-126. Part IV. Utopias in practice Automata: a masculine utopia / Christine Woesler de Panafieu. p. 127-146. Making dreams come true - An essay on the role of practical utopias in science / Aant Elzinga ; Andrew Jamison. p. 147-172. Eugenic utopias : blueprints for the rationalization of human evolution / Peter Weingart. p. 173-188. Artificial Intelligence and industrial robots : an automatic end for utopian thought / James Fleck. p. 189-234. Part V. Utopian modes Meddling with `Politicks`- Some conjectures about the relationship between science and utopia / Ingo Grabner. p. 235-260. Science and power for what? / Evelyn Fox Keller. p. 261-272. Science and utopia in late 20th centruy pluralist democracy, with a special reference to the U.S.A. / Yaron Ezrahi p. 273-290. Epilogue Vespers / W. H. Auden p. 291-294.

ISBN: 9027717192 9027717214 (pbk.)

LCCN: 84013387

Subjects--Topical Terms:
CIENCIA
CIENCIA Y SOCIEDAD
UTOPIA

LC Class. No.: HX806 / .N56 1984eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306.45 / NIN 714