This paper presents a study of the popularisation of nanotechnologies, based on two books, one written by scientists, the other written by a science journalist. We will focus on two aspects: firstly we will point out a number of rhetorical strategies used by the authors in order to impose the idea that nanotechnologies occupy a central position from a social and epistemological point of view. Secondly we will show that their aim to transform humanity is stated as so obvious that it suppresses the question of the legitimacy of an anthropotechnical program presupposing its own universal validity. Yet, at least in the discourse intended for the wider public, nano-technologies do not question their own particularity nor do they question other particular points of view that would present a different view of man.
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Willmann, Françoise: Nanotechnologie im Popularisierungsdiskurs. Zentrale Anliegen und partikulare Interessen. <http://www.germanistik.ch/publikation.php? id=Nanotechnologie_im_Popularisierungsdiskurs> (Publiziert März 2013)
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Willmann, Françoise: Nanotechnologie im Popularisierungsdiskurs. Zentrale Anliegen und partikulare Interessen. In: Michael Stolz, Laurent Cassagnau, Daniel Meyer und Nathalie Schnitzer (Hg.): Germanistik in der Schweiz (GiS) Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Akademischen Gesellschaft für Germanistik. Heft 10/2013. Bern: germanistik.ch 2013, S.129-137