Post-Modern Critique of the Grand-Narrative of Science
“Modernity’s knowledge rest, more than in the pride, in the arrogance -that could be anthropocentric, logocentric or technocentric- of a rational matrix that pretends to establish a simple equation of unification between being and thought as the revealers of world’s truth.” (Torrecilla, p. 167) In that sense, knowledge is inscribed in a search for truth in a real and objective world. That view of knowledge became crystalized in the corpus of science. Science, conceived in opposition to irrationality, came to be another “step towards mankind emancipation.” It’s most notable expression is technology which is celebrated as the unchallenged human domination over nature. That was the promise of science. But as we have seen modernity is a paradoxical terrain: science’s claims of rationality were accepted with a fervent religious faith. Science’s light was so strong that not few have been “blinded” by it.
Post-Modern Critique of the Grand-Narrative of Science
The following are others of the Grand-Narrative of Modernity:
The Emergence of the Individual
The Grand-Narrative of History: Progress and Change
The Political Economy of Modernity