Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

A Critical Review of “After Method”

Document Type : Research

Authors

Arash Mousavi 1
Mohammad Amin Baradaran Nikou 2

1 Assistant Professor of Policy Planning for Science and Technology, National Research Institute for Science Policy

2 PhD in Philosophy of Science, Researcher at National Research Institute for Science Policy

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2019.3928
Abstract
In this paper, we intend to introduce, criticize, and analyze the book “After Method”; written by John Law and translated by Mojtaba Azizi. The book is published in 2004 by Routledge. “After Method” is asking a massive evolution in methodology. Also, it criticizes the main stream of ontology and epistemology. First, the theoretical context of the book, its main ideas, the writer, and the translator are introduced. In the following, the book is criticized for both form and substantive content. Formally, some writing tips, typographic, and editorial notes are observed. In the content section, firstly the translation of the specialized terminology is discussed. Then, some sentences are chosen, the translation of which makes understanding the text difficult. Comparisons between the original text and the translated text are made. The problems are shown and suggestions are also provided. The translation of such novels, on the one hand, expands and enriches the literature in Persian, and on the other hand, it is always confronted with difficulties. The ambiguity of translating some of the specialized terminology and the inability to translate the concepts into the reader is the main problem of the translation. 

Keywords

John Law
Mojtaba Azizi
After Method
Methodology
Actor-Network Theory
Critique of Translation

Subjects

لا، جان (1394)، در جست‌وجوی روش، ترجمة سیدمجتبی عزیزی، تهران: ترجمان.
صفوی، کوروش (1383)، «فردینان دوسوسور»، متن پژوهی ادبی، ش 22، زمستان.‏
Benton, Ted and ‎Ian Craib (2011), Philosphy of Social Science, Social Thoght, New York: Palgrave.
Bloor, David (1976/ 1991), Knowledge and Social Imagery, (2nd edition with a new foreword), Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kuhn, T. S. (1962), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, (3rd ed. 1997), Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Latour, Burno and Steve Woolgar (1979), Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, Princeton University Press.
Law, John (1994), Organizing Modernity: Social Ordering and Social Theory, UK, Oxford: Cambridge.
Law, John (2004), After Method, London: Rutledge.
Law, John and Peter Lodge (1984), Science for Social Scientists, London: Macmillan Press.
Law, John. (2002), Aircraft Stories, Duke University Press.

  • Receive Date 05 November 2018
  • Revise Date 21 January 2019
  • Accept Date 13 March 2019

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