Humphry Davy: The Experimental Self
Humphry Davy: The Experimental Self
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汉弗莱·戴维：实验性的自我
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2011
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J. Golinski
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J. Golinski
本文以浪漫主义时期科学学科结构的发展和个人主体性的探索为背景，考察了汉弗莱·戴维的职业生涯。我展示了戴维是如何通过部署壮观而强大的化学仪器，为自己构建了一个有魅力的角色，作为一名科学讲师和研究人员。这样做，他既利用和巩固新的制度和学科的形成。我还展示了戴维的职业生涯如何在不断变化的社会环境中不断自我塑造，如何要求更彻底的体制改革使他靠边站，以及他如何在不稳定的性别关系中受到嘲笑。戴维的案例表明，纪律机构的建立与个人身份的形成有着复杂的关系，一个有魅力的个人在这样的机构中的职业生涯可能是不稳定的。
This essay examines the career of Humphry Davy against a background of the development of disciplinary structures in science and the exploration of individual subjectivity in the Romantic period. I show how Davy constructed a charismatic persona for himself as a scientific lecturer and researcher with his deployment of spectacular and powerful chemical instrumentation. Doing so, he both exploited and consolidated new institutional and disciplinary formations. I also show how Davy’s career called for continuous self-fashioning in a changing social milieu, how demands for more thoroughgoing institutional reform sidelined him, and how he was subjected to ridicule in a context of unstable gender-relations. Davy’s case suggests that the establishment of disciplinary institutions had a complex relationship to formations of personal identity, and that the career of a charismatic individual in such institutions could be a precarious one.