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A History of the Modern Fact - Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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A History of the Modern Fact - Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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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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