Re: Luke Rondinaro's world system theory

agf replies: I dont understand.
my posting said clearly that i was positing only an abstract. the paper
is 20-30 x as long and avialble on my web page 
csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/
in the section on on-line essays, subsection history or contemporary, i 
do t recall which.
 gunder

On
Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Elson Boles wrote:

> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:18:25 -0400
> From: Elson Boles <boles@svsu.edu>
> To: 'Andre Gunder Frank' <franka@fiu.edu>
> Cc: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> Subject: RE: Luke Rondinaro's world system theory
> 
> Gunder, is that it?  A bit of a scant review.  Seems like the Emperor
> put on almost no clothes!
> 
> Elson Boles
> Assistant Professor
> Dept. of Sociology
> Saginaw Valley State University
> University Center
> Saginaw MI, 48710
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wsn-owner@csf.colorado.edu 
> > [mailto:wsn-owner@csf.colorado.edu] On Behalf Of Andre Gunder Frank
> > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 8:41 PM
> > To: PAULYKDB@cs.com
> > Cc: wsn@csf.colorado.edu
> > Subject: Re: Luke Rondinaro's world system theory
> > 
> > 
> >  SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC EMPEROR'S CLOTHES
> >                          A Review Essay 
> > 
> > of Naked Science. Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, 
> > Power, and Knowledge edited by Laura Nader. New York & 
> > London: Routledge 1996, xvi,318 pp. $ ??
> >                               by
> > 
> >        ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
> > 
> > 
> > abstract
> >       
> > The editor explains: "The point is to open up people's minds 
> > to other ways of looking and questioning to change attitudes 
> > about knowledge, to reframe the organization of science - to 
> > formulate ways of thinking globally about science traditions 
> > ....  There are different kinds of knowledge that provide 
> > valid truths of use to human kind. If a dominant [Western] 
> > science silences that knowledge, we all lose.... The myth of 
> > a single science can be seen as a myth; the false separation 
> > between science and nonscience may be considered a barrier to 
> > new thinking; and a whole range of vital and experimental 
> > thinking is possible" [23-24].
> > 
> > The central theses and the abundant evidence in this book are 
> > that "science is not free of culture; rather, it is full of 
> > it. Militarization has certainly had an effect on American 
> > science... [and] has also fired the pervasive 
> > commercialization of the scientific effort.... Politicization 
> > of science is unavoidable, [because] behaviour is affected by 
> > those who control funding and who often determine the 
> > research questions [and] virtually all science has social and 
> > political implications.... Denial of a contexutalized 
> > science, or the assertion that science is autonomous, strikes 
> > at the scientific endeavor, defined as a process of free 
> > inquiry" [xiii,9].
> > 
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> >                ANDRE    GUNDER      FRANK
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> > Senior Fellow                                      Residence
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> > Tel: 617 - 373 4060                     Fax:    617-948 2316
> > Web-page:csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/     e-mail:franka@fiu.edu
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               ANDRE    GUNDER      FRANK

Senior Fellow                                      Residence
World History Center                    One Longfellow Place
Northeastern University                            Apt. 3411
270 Holmes Hall                         Boston, MA 02114 USA
Boston, MA 02115 USA                    Tel:    617-948 2315
Tel: 617 - 373 4060                     Fax:    617-948 2316
Web-page:csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/     e-mail:franka@fiu.edu

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