A History Of The Modern Fact by Mary Poovey
Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
A genealogy of how “facts” came to be treated as neutral, objective units of knowledge, this study traces their emergence from early modern practices like bookkeeping and experimental reporting through political arithmetic, classical political economy, and Victorian social investigation. It shows how genres, institutions, and conventions of enumeration and description standardized credibility, separated data from theory, and redefined authority across science, economics, and literature, ultimately revealing that facts are historically produced rather than self-evident givens.
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- Published
- 1998
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 430-450
- Original Language
- English
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