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436 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226675251
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 December 1998
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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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436 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226675251
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 December 1998
Description
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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Content Warnings