THE HYBRID SCIENTIFIC OBJECTS AND THE HYBRID HUMANS, INTEGRATION AND REJECTED DIFFERENCE: WHICH ARE THEIR REASONS?
THE HYBRID SCIENTIFIC OBJECTS AND THE HYBRID HUMANS, INTEGRATION AND REJECTED DIFFERENCE: WHICH ARE THEIR REASONS?

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an epistemological fathoming of the problem of hybrids in the cultural life. But –or as a result of this goal – some conclusions have been established not only in relation with the topic, but also with the general approach of the cultural/even super-structural phenomena. Thus, comparing what has happened in the modern science from at least the second half of the 20th century – the consciousness and principles of interdisciplinary, multi and trans-disciplinary approaches of cultures and certainly, of topics, and thus the construction of hybrid scientific objects – with the rejection of hybrids in the modern society, the analysis is interested in the dis-covering of the reasons of the specific treatment of hybrids in this society and including nowadays. And the first reason is not a simple, “a-historical” and “non-social”, psychological feeling – of being disconcerted in front of them because the hybrids have not only known features but also new ones, the known features tending to make people to accept them and to annul the new aspects, they “integrating” these objects in the old, habitual representations, while the novel and even unwonted of the hybrids generating rather rejection – but a socially constructed representation/socially constructed representations. By confronting the cultural patterns of the attitudes towards hybrids (purism, multiculturalism) with the social historical conditions they have been forged, the paper highlights the complex causes of the attitudes and the necessity to surpass the convenient alignment to the patterns which oppose rationalism all the way.

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