The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700 (Hardcover, New edition)

The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped as an age of invention. But was the invention/discovery binary itself invented, or discovered? This volume investigates the possibility that it was invented, through a range of early modern knowledge practices, centered on the emergence of modern natural science. From Bacon to Galileo, from stagecraft to math, from martyrology to romance, contributors to this interdisciplinary collection examine the period's generation of discovery as an absolute and ostensibly neutral standard of knowledge-production. They further investigate the hermeneutic implications for the epistemological authority that tends, in modernity, still to be based on that standard. The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700 is a set of attempts to think back behind discovery, considered as a decisive trope for modern knowledge.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	James Dougal Fleming
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-6841-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
LSN:	0-7546-6841-X
Barcode:	9780754668411

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