A History of the Modern Fact by Mary Poovey
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.Mary Poovey, the Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York University, just retired. A History of the Modern Fact: Issues of Knowing in the Sciences of Wealth and Society, as well as Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain, are among her many publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226675268 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226675262 |
| Title | A History of the Modern Fact |
| Author | Mary Poovey |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1998-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 436 |
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