W. H. G. Armytage

The Rise of the Technocrats (eBook, PDF)

A Social History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2006. The ambitious role cast for scientists in public affairs has been matched by an equal coyness on the part of scientists to play it. Yet in spite of themselves, they have been virtually dragged on to the political stage because of their 'collectivities' - groups formed over the last four centuries often more fugitive than institutional - which have helped modify the human environment, thereby enabling men to emancipate themselves from the tyranny of the present and plan for the future. The byproducts of such plans, from the great botanical gardens to the seed beds of physical scientists like the Ecole Polytechnique, have also incubated further ideas about the relation of science and society that are ecumenical in scope.

Indeed the positivist overtones of the Polytechnique herald the transition from platocracy to technocracy, for the technical intelligentsia trained its German, Russian and American counterparts have effected a quasi-religious synthesis of physics and politics. In this 'planning' was the central theme. The social history of such planning (with the concomitant views on the social organisation of science) is the subject of the book

Pressurising it is the conviction that " we can identify a particular thing only by pointing to the various things it successively was before it became that particular thing that it will presently cease to be", and the story, which begins four hundred years ago and ends in 1964.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135031626
• Artikelnr.: 39945012

Autorenporträt

W. H. G. Armytage

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Seed-Beds of Science
Chapter 1 Garden Economies
Chapter 2 The Beat of the Imagination
Chapter 3 Academic Honeycombs
Chapter 4 Glands of the Plantocracy
Part 2 The Epiphany of the Technocracy
Chapter 5 From Physiocracy to Physicism
Chapter 6 Materialists and Monists
Chapter 7 Emergent Operationalism in England 1815-61
Chapter 8 The Laws and the Prophets
Part 3 Frontier Problems
Chapter 9 Improvised Europeans
Chapter 10 The Zapadniki
Chapter 11 Science and the American Frontier 1862-1918
Chapter 12 The Rise of the Russian Technical Intelligentsia
Chapter 13 The New Political Arithmetic
Part 4 The Politics of Science
Chapter 14 Amerikanski Tempo
Chapter 15 Technocrats and the Politics of Power
Chapter 16 Science and Social Recuperation in Britain
Chapter 17 The Two Leviathans
Part 5 The Diaspora of Technology
Chapter 18 The Conversion of the Mandarins
Chapter 19 Science and the Samurai
Chapter 20 Mao's model: The Red Expert for Export
Chapter 21 An Operational World?