"Anything goes ..." - Farewell to conventions?

Authors
Citation
W. Ratzek, "Anything goes ..." - Farewell to conventions?, NFD INF-WIS, 52(6), 2001, pp. 347-348
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Library & Information Science
Journal title
NFD INFORMATION-WISSENSCHAFT UND PRAXIS
ISSN journal
14344653 → ACNP
Volume
52
Issue
6
Year of publication
2001
Pages
347 - 348
Database
ISI
SICI code
1434-4653(200109)52:6<347:"G.-FT>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Almost thirty years ago, the American philosopher Paul Feyerabend provoked the scientific community by his "anything goes", This hypothesis was buoyed up by postmodern philosophy. Science, family, trade unions, political part ies or religion are loosing their rudimentary functions. These basic social institutions become part of a spectra-rich ecclectic game, in which everyb ody seems to invent their own rules of the game and change them at will.