I don't want to be right

“Break away from everything you know and invest in innovation.”
“The role of philosophy is to create the conditions for creation.”
“In the face of a general crisis, there must be a general philosophy.”
“My goal is not to try to be right, but to create some kind of overall, deep, and reasonable intuition.”
“One of the most beautiful questions of our time is to rethink the chaos of knowledge.”
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In 1991, Bruno Latour persuaded Michel Serre to conduct five interviews, titled "Growth," "Method," "Proof," "The End of Criticism," and "Wisdom," to recount Serre's upbringing and academic reflections. Serre is renowned for his idiosyncratic way of thinking, constantly traversing time, space, and disciplines, forging connections between seemingly unrelated entities. This has left many readers perplexed while also inspiring them. This book aims to clarify these confusions and facilitate a more accessible understanding of Serre's thought.
As an introductory reading on Searle, readers can learn in this book about the impact of the war on him (and the French intellectual world after World War II), how the atomic bomb changed his academic direction, his ideas and practices of combining science and humanities, and his views on Lucretius, Leibniz, Weil, Bachelard and others.
Latour's readers can see many clues to his thoughts in this book, such as the origin of important concepts such as "quasi-object", Searle's influence on science, technology and society (STS) research, etc.

2024-04-01

上海人民出版社

New Thinking

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9787208187450