Lorraine Daston: Rules | Buch

Cover: 9780691156989 | Rules | A Short History of What We Live By | Lorraine Daston | Buch

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Beschreibung

"We are, all of us, everywhere, always, enmeshed in a web of rules and constraints. Rules fix the beginning and end of the working day and the school year, direct the ebb and flow of traffic on the roads, dictate who can be married to whom and how, place the fork to the right or the left of the plate, lay down the meter and rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet, and order the rites of birth and death. Cultures notoriously differ as to the content of their rules, but there is no culture without rules. In this book, historian of science Lorraine Daston adopts a long term perspective for studying rules from diverse sources, including monastic orders, cookbooks, and mathematical algorithms. She argues that in the Western tradition most rules can be characterized as one of the following: tools of measurement and calculation, models or paradigms, or laws. Moreover, they exist on spectra from specific to general, flexible to rigid and the specific-to-general, and universal-to-particular. In investigating how rules work, how they don't work, how they've changed across time, and why exceptions are necessary, Daston paints a vivid picture of Western civilization from the antiquity to the present"--

Über den Autor

Lorraine Daston is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and a permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. Her books include Classical Probability in the Enlightenment (Princeton).

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Lawrence Stone Lectures
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780691156989
ISBN-10:	0691156980
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Daston, Lorraine
Hersteller:	Princeton Univers. Press
Abbildungen:	42 b/w illus.
Maße:	221 x 153 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Lorraine Daston
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.08.2022
Gewicht:	0,654 kg

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