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A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
Mary Poovey
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| #416447 in Books | imusti | 1998-11-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.30 x6.00l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 436 pages | University of Chicago Press||20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.| Substance Over Style|By Ceek|In contrast to the unnecessary wordiness of this book, I will keep my review of it concise.
What we conceive of as "fact" today is a modern invention in which theories about how to discern and represent objective truth in the world coalesced around our conceptions of scientific induction, moral philosophy, and rhetorical styles in the 1|From Library Journal|Poovey (English, New York Univ.) defines the modern fact as systematic knowledge that is derived from the theoretical interpretation of observed particulars, i.e., numbers. This distinction between description (numbers) and interpretation ha
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 h...
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