Transdisciplinarity as Relative Exteriority

A theory is primarily a spectacle, and looking at a theatre presupposes standing in a site exterior to the stage. Leibniz often uses the word theatre, but never for science. In its relation to scientific knowledge, philosophy seeks a site from whence to speak about the encyclopaedia. But the latter,...

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Published in:Theory, culture & society culture & society, 2015-09, Vol.32 (5-6), p.41-44
Main Author: Serres, Michel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Appropriation
Dominance
Encyclopaedias
Encyclopedias
Enlightenment
Knowledge
Law
Modernity
Performing arts
Philosophers
Philosophy
Philosophy of science
Property
Scientific knowledge
Studies
Theater
Theory
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Summary:A theory is primarily a spectacle, and looking at a theatre presupposes standing in a site exterior to the stage. Leibniz often uses the word theatre, but never for science. In its relation to scientific knowledge, philosophy seeks a site from whence to speak about the encyclopaedia. But the latter, well constructed, speaks a language closed upon itself. Yet there are four and only four possible sites that philosophers have discovered, defined and practised. These four sites define four types or modes of appropriation of science, four ingenious ways to acquire a property by illicit means -- in other words, to gain a sovereign science without going through science as such. These four points of views are: Greek site, Kantian site, enlightenment site and modernity site. This law of the four cardinal sites brings people to the end of an adventure, that of the impregnable texts kept external to knowledge, the four pathways of domination.
ISSN:0263-2764
1460-3616
DOI:10.1177/0263276415597046