Scientific Biographies

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“This book is not yet another modified version of the so-called biographism in science, so strongly criticized in the ‘serious’ literary studies and in other disciplines adopting the form of easy psychologism. The concept of ‘scientific biographies’ presented here originates from different assumptions and serves different objectives. It concerns a specific tension that is generated (and is usually declaratively ‘eliminated’ from the official theoretical position) between practicing purely cognitive knowledge and biographical-historical-contextual elements, which make up the so-called unofficial biography of a researcher. This tension manifests itself in various ways since there is a whole spectrum of possibilities in this respect. What is more, it sometimes happens that self-reflection becomes a key ingredient of practicing knowledge, as can be observed for example in the case of reflexive anthropology or even within the reflexive tum in the modern humanities. Scientific Biographies bring precisely such different dimensions of the newly conceived context vivisection of biographism.”

Wojciech J. Burszta, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Marcin KAFAR, Around ‘Biographical Perspectives’: An Introduction 7
Chapter One: Andrzej Paweł WEJLAND, Horizon―Conversion―Narration: Identity and Otherness in the Scientific World of the Humanists 21
Chapter Two: Marcin KAFAR, Biographical Epiphanies in the Context of Laying the Foundations of the Qualitative Thought Collective 43
Chapter Three: Michał WRÓBLEWSKI, Living in Relations: Biographies of Scientists in the Context of the Actor Network Theory 75
Chapter Four: Magdalena MATYSEK-IMIELIŃSKA, Thinking―Commitment―Assimilation: Biographical Themes in the Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman 103
Chapter Five: Marcin KAFAR, Michel Foucault as a Heterotopia 121
Chapter Six: Marcin M. BOGUSŁAWSKI, Monika MODRZEJEWSKA-ŚWIGULSKA, Do ‘Professional’ and ‘Non-Professional’ Dimensions of Biography Really Exist? Deliberations Based upon The Autobiographical Novel by Michał Głowiński: A Reflection Written for Two Voices 139
Chapter Seven: Marta SONGIN-MOKRZAN, Ethnographic Experience and the Politics of Situatedness 165
Chapter Eight: Aneta OSTASZEWSKA, From the Point of View of a Woman: Autobiographical Context of Feminist Studies 179
Chapter Nine: Łukasz M. DOMINIAK, Biographical Self-monitoring as a Condition of Reflexive Sociology and Anthropology: Towards Practical Epistemology of Social Sciences 197
Notes on Contributors 205

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