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Poovey, Mary

 
9780226675268: A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
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ISBN 10: 0226675262 ISBN 13: 9780226675268
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1998

Sinopsis

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences?

Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how belief—whether figured as credit, credibility, or credulity—remained essential to the production of knowledge.

Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.

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Mary Poovey has recently retired from her position as Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York University. She is the author of numerous books, including A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society and Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226675262
ISBN 13 
9780226675268
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Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
445
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