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System : the shaping of modern knowledge / Clifford Siskin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siskin, Clifford, author.
- Series:
- Infrastructures.
- Infrastructures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642--Knowledge and learning--Science.
- Galilei, Galileo.
- Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
- Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- System theory.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Shaping of modern knowledge
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- I Past And Present-From the "System of the World" to a World Full of Systems 15
- 1 Engaging System 17
- 2 Histories For Systems 43
- II Mediating Knowledge-System and the Fate of Enlightenment 79
- 3 The Project of Enlightenment (Master Systems) 81
- 4 Disciplinarity (Embedded and Specialized Systems) 121
- III Connectivities-System and the Instituting of Modernity 147
- 5 Blaming the System-Instituting the Political 149
- 6 Writing Upon System-Instituting Culture 171
- 7 Secretly Seeking System-Instituting the Social 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262035316
- 0262035316
- OCLC:
- 946159853
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