Reviews for Place of Science in a World of Values and Facts

The average rating for Place of Science in a World of Values and Facts based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-08-08 00:00:00 Mike Johanis Back when I used to read academic books, this one was my very favourite. Now, nearly twenty years later I still remember how articulate this author is. There is a lot of word play and the sentences flow into one another with a sense of productive tension. The research is unique (historical analysis about the circulation of knowledge within communities of English doctors) and the underlying model of uneven resource distribution seems pertinent even today.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-01-22 00:00:00 Reba Williams Again, no one has given this a rating, so I feel a certain obligation to provide one. Providing some of the foundations of Thrift's "non-representational theory," this book is particularly good at connecting space to postmodernist social theory, Bourdieu and Giddens especially. If you have any interest in geographies that transcend the world of represented space and move into the stranger, murkier waters of "lived space," then this book is for you.