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System : the shaping of modern knowledge / Clifford Siskin.

Van Pelt Library BD255 .S57 2016
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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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