Reconfiguring Truth: Postmodernism, Science Studies, and the Search for a New Model of Knowledge

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This refreshingly original book links the postmodern critique of notions such as 'reality' and 'truth' with approaches to knowledge found in science and technology studies (STS), a field also discontent with traditional epistemology. Exploring STS approaches to knowledge, such as actor-network theory, Ward forges a path through the impasse of the modernism vs. postmodernism debate. Reconfiguring Knowledge is an important work for social scientists and theorists, philosophers, historians, and scholars of science and technology.

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Long overdue . . . the first sober attempt to locate the recent science studies literature in the sociology of knowledge tradition. The book should prove accessible to both teachers and students. -- Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, author of Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era
One of the most lucid and knowledgeable expositions of postmodernism and its paradoxes as one can find in the literature. -- Stephan Fuchs, University of Virginia
a serious and important contribution to sociological theory. -- Kelly Moore, Columbia University * Contemporary Sociology *
. . . a worthwile book, and it provides a good starting point for people interested in current debates in science studies. * Choice Reviews *

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Steven C. Ward is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Connecticut State University.