scholarly journals Pour en lire plus : Quand le voyage devient pathologique… Les fous voyageurs. Ian Hacking, Les fous voyageurs, Paris, Seuil, coll. « Les empêcheurs de penser en rond », 2002, 391 p.

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Le Roux
Keyword(s):  
Ian Hacking

scholarly journals Quantification and classification in education: What is at stake?

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110320
Author(s):  
Ann Christin Eklund Nilsen ◽  
Ove Skarpenes
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Ian Hacking ◽  
The Public ◽  
Statistical Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Bureaucracy ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Different Levels

Histories of statistics and quantification have demonstrated that systems of statistical knowledge participate in the construction of the objects that are measured. However, the pace, purpose, and scope of quantification in state bureaucracy have expanded greatly over the past decades, fuelled by (neoliberal) societal trends that have given the social phenomenon of quantification a central place in political discussions and in the public sphere. This is particularly the case in the field of education. In this article, we ask what is at stake in state bureaucracy, professional practice, and individual pupils as quantification increasingly permeates the education field. We call for a theoretical renewal in order to understand quantification as a social phenomenon in education. We propose a sociology-of-knowledge approach to the phenomenon, drawing on different theoretical traditions in the sociology of knowledge in France (Alain Desrosières and Laurent Thévenot), England (Barry Barnes and Donald MacKenzie), and Canada (Ian Hacking), and argue that the ongoing quantification practice at different levels of the education system can be understood as cultural processes of self-fulfilling prophecies.

scholarly journals La «pierre noire» et la «bulle de savon». Reflexions sur le corps au xxie siecle

Daímon ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Jean-François Braunstein
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Ian Hacking

<p><span>Michel Foucault ha transformado nuestra visión del cuerpo. Así como Judith Butler, muchos han querido hallar en él la idea de que “los cuerpos son construidos”. La utopía queer o la extraña enfermedad mental de la amputomanía dan cuenta de dicha desmaterialización del cuerpo. Foucault soñaba efectivamente con un cuerpo “pompa de jabón”. Esta visión “neo-dualista”, muy bien descrita por Ian Hacking, puede llevar hasta un gnosticismo despectivo por la “carne” insignificante que es nuestro cuerpo. Pero para Foucault, en <em>El nacimiento de la clínica</em>, el cuerpo es también una “piedra negra”, opaca e impenetrable. Las reflexiones de Canguilhem o la pintura de Bacon nos permiten superar manifiestamente la brutal oposición entre un “cuerpo espiritual”, enteramente construido”, y un “cuerpo material”, simplemente dado.</span></p>

Taking a Look at History

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-117
Author(s):  
Vasso Kindi
Keyword(s):  
New Historicism ◽  
Visual Metaphor ◽  
Ian Hacking

AbstractIan Hacking urged that philosophers take a look at history. He called his recommendation the “Lockean imperative”. In the present paper I examine how Hacking understands the relation between philosophy and history by concentrating on his 1990 essay “Two kinds of ‘New Historicism’ for philosophers”. In this particular paper Hacking uses the visual metaphor of ‘taking a look’ which can also be found in the work of two other philosophers, Kuhn and Foucault, who are called by Hacking his mentors. I argue that in the work of these three philosophers, as well as in the work of Wittgenstein who has influenced both Hacking and Kuhn, one can find interest and attention to particulars which can be furnished by history, an approach which cultivates a sensibility for difference. I begin by presenting Hacking’s understanding of the relation of history to philosophy and then discuss what the Lockean imperative is. I concentrate on Locke’s understanding of history which differs considerably from the contemporary and end by focusing on the similarities in the work of the aforementioned thinkers.

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