Publisher's Synopsis
Käthe Trettin, in a seismographic–deconstructivist process, examines Aristotle′s and Frege′s logical symbolics. The fascination of evidence and the transparancy of formalisms are penetrated by defining the unstated assumptions, those left to ′silence′. The author is chiefly concerned with the structure of silence hidden behind the fog of evidence: ′Logic points and remains silent.′ The material from which logic abstracts in order to function technically is decoded by Trettin into the oncological prejudgments that lie in abstractions and the social dimensions of these prejudments: how the relationship of knowledge and social practice, knowledge and mastery, knowledge and gender is tacitly expressed, reproduced and performed in them. ′Epistemotechnics′ is a formulation inspired by Aristotle, which points toward the technical implementation of formal logic.
In the book, uneasiness and fascination with this transformed foralism of logical thinking are reflected and unpretentiously illustrated from a stance both critical of science and critically built on science.
