《A History of the Modern Fact》是University Of Chicago Press出版的圖書，作者是Mary Poovey
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780226675251
- 作者：Mary Poovey
- 出版社：University Of Chicago Press
- 出版時間：1998年12月1日
- 頁數：436
- 定價：USD 75.00
- 裝幀：Hardcover
內容簡介
Exploring such questions as "how did fact become modernity's most favoured unit of knowledge?", this text contains ideas and texts from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. It shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced gov...(展開全部) Exploring such questions as "how did fact become modernity's most favoured unit of knowledge?", this text contains ideas and texts from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. It 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.
