Counter-Movements in the Sciences pp 277-289 | Cite as
Hyper-Reflexivity — a New Danger for the Counter-Movements
Abstract
I don’t know if anyone reads straight through an edited collection of papers such as this volume, or whether, as I confess I usually do, they dip in and out, attracted by a modish title or the author or subject one has some familiarity with already. But to read this book from the beginning is to experience a constellation of voices, some writing directly out of their own personal and subjective experience, all commenting, analysing, attempting to apply the tools of sociology to the phenomenon. Indeed, when we developed the idea of a book on counter-movements in the sciences and invited contributions to it, this was what we anticipated. For the issues raised by such a title, and the difficulties of those trapped within the contradictions of science as it is practised in this society, are multifaceted. We recognised from the beginning that this book would inevitably be as much a declaration of the experience as an analysis of its meaning.
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