A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society by Mary Poovey

A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society

Mary Poovey

436 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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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,...

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