Mary Poovey

A History of the Modern Fact

Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society

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Produktbeschreibung

Showing the epistemological conditions that have made modern, social and economic knowledge possible, this text explores questions such as, "how did fact become modernity's most favoured unit of knowledge?".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9780226675268
• ISBN-10: 0226675262
• Artikelnr.: 21235466

Autorenporträt

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.