Red Black and Objective

Drawing on the empirical findings generated by researchers in science studies and adopting Kropotkin's concept of anarchism as one of the social sciences Red Black and Objective expounds and develops an anarchist account of science as a social construction and social institution. Restivo's account is at once normative analytical organizational and policy oriented in particular with respect to education. With attention to the social practices and discourse of science this book engages with the works of Feyerabend and Nietzsche as well as philosophers and historians of objectivity to ground an anarchistic sociology of science. Marx and Durkheim figure prominently in this account as precursors of the contemporary science studies perspective on the perennial question What is science? The result is an approach to understanding the science-and-society nexus that is at once an extension of Restivo's earlier work and a novel adaptation of the anarchist agenda. Red Black and Objective is an exploration by one of the founders of the science studies movement of questions in theory practice values and policy. As such it will appeal to those with interests in science and technology studies social theory and sociology and philosophy of science and technology.