Utopia@Second_Millennium. Daedalus_Meets_Job

Through dialogue new worlds can be imagined. In this imaginary dialogue between the vision of Daedalus, speaking through J. B. S. Haldane, and the Old Testament visionary, Job, the relationship between nature and science is re-explored, re-examined and re-engaged. Their words bounce back off the med...

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Published inHistory of the human sciences Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 79 - 92
Main Author Myerson, George
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published SAGE Publications 01.02.2003
Subjects
Conversation
Dialogue
Future
Futures (of Society)
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
Mass media
Natural Environment
Science
Utopianism
imagined worlds
nature
dialogue
science
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Summary:Through dialogue new worlds can be imagined. In this imaginary dialogue between the vision of Daedalus, speaking through J. B. S. Haldane, and the Old Testament visionary, Job, the relationship between nature and science is re-explored, re-examined and re-engaged. Their words bounce back off the media's contemporary imagining of the BSE crisis in Britain, an episode that profoundly questioned this nature-science interrelationship.
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ISSN:0952-6951
1461-720X
DOI:10.1177/0952695103016001007