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À partir du moment où nous réalisons que nous sommes dans le langage, et non pas au-dessus, que nous sommes dans le temps et l'histoire, et non pas à l'extérieur, nous comprenons qu'en tant que chercheur écrivant ou qu'écrivain chercheur, nous sommes engagés dans une même entreprise qui est celle de l'aventure du langage. Et cette dernière consiste à construire des histoires. Comme l'énonce Max Weber, les sciences sociales ont moins pour but l'explication des faits que la compréhension du sens, c'est-à-dire une activité d'interprétation. Celle-ci n'est ni une transcription ni une reproduction, mais une création sémantique nouvelle à travers un mouvement de configuration auquel il ne peut être mis un terme. Elle est en fait un récit qui donnera lieu à d'autres interprétations, c'est-à-dire à d'autres récits. C'est bien ainsi que se dessinent les chemins de la connaissance.

Mouvements de l'histoire intellectuelle et des sciences sociales et relations avec les questions du présent

In Western Europe and especially West Germany, introducing a new approach in political science, biopolitics, is not an easy task. German political science has a very strong and effective philosophical tradition (Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Weber), which separates it from the life sciences. Traditionally, political science is a theoretical branch of study, and politics is regarded principally as a rational process. Based on well-known historical experiences, German social scientists raise ideological objections to biology, and, with some exceptions (Flohr, 1979, 1983; Buhl, 1981, 1982), they neglect the findings of the life sciences. Political science mainly operates in a vacuum, adhering to the discipline's traditional monistic conceptions of what politics ought to be. Thus, in Germany the first problem is how to change monistic approaches and create a new kind of scientific conception of the world, one that is open and dynamic (Radnitzky, 1971) and able to integrate findings from the life sciences. Only then can biopolitical perspectives become anchored in the discipline. Thus, introducing biopolitics in Germany depends on a mental change, from traditional monistic conceptions to an open conception.

A collection of essays by Alexander Rosenberg, the distinguished philosopher of science. The essays cover three broad areas related to Darwinian thought and naturalism: the first deals with the solution of philosophical problems such as reductionism, the second with the development of social theories, and the third with the intersection of evolutionary biology with economics, political philosophy, and public policy. Specific papers deal with naturalistic epistemology, the limits of reductionism, the biological justification of ethics, the so-called 'trolley problem' in moral philosophy, the political philosophy of biological endowments, and the Human Genome Project and its implications for policy. Rosenberg's important writings on a variety of issues are here organized into a coherent philosophical framework which promises to be a significant and controversial contribution to scholarship in many areas