Knowledge and Social Construction. By Andrew M. Koch. Lanham,
MD: Lexington Books, 2005. 174p. $65.00.
Epistemology—even more than mathematics—is arguably the
paradigmatic science of modernity. Critics of modernity, such as Friedrich
Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Heidegger, have all in one way or
another argued against the modern worry over knowing and have recommended
instead “doing.” In light of this, Andrew M. Koch's
Knowledge and Social Construction is intriguing. Its inspiration
draws from many of modernity's prominent critics. Yet, curiously, as
the book's title makes clear, its argument is an epistemological
one.