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.
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ppl who rely on this book and cite her are often much less careful, not aware of the dangers in an literary reading of selected sources in science. Therefore would recommend anyone interested in this field to actually read it and also c.f. Margaret Jacob's critique in History and Theory, 2001.
評分"We should admit that power produces knowledge; that power and knowledge directly imply one another; that there is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitue at the same time power relations" (Foucault 1977:28)
評分"We should admit that power produces knowledge; that power and knowledge directly imply one another; that there is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitue at the same time power relations" (Foucault 1977:28)
評分ppl who rely on this book and cite her are often much less careful, not aware of the dangers in an literary reading of selected sources in science. Therefore would recommend anyone interested in this field to actually read it and also c.f. Margaret Jacob's critique in History and Theory, 2001.
評分大部頭。偶啃完瞭。 普維老太太俺也是用心學瞭一把。
A History of the Modern Fact 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載