Daston, Lorraine J. (Editor)
University of Chicago Press
Physical Details: x + 307 pp., illus., figs., index
Language: English
Description Contents: Lorraine Daston, Preternatural Philosophy; Rivka Feldhay, Mathematical Entities in Scientific Discourse: Paulus Guldin and His Dissertatio de Motu Terrae; Doris Kaufmann, Dreams and Self-Consciousness: Mapping the Mind in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; Jan Goldstein, Mutations of the Self in Old Regime and Postrevolutionary France: From Ame to Moi to Le Moi; Gerard Jorland, The Coming into Being and Passing Away of Value Theories in Economics (1776-1976); Peter Wagner, An Entirely New Object of Consciousness, of Volition, of Thought: The Coming Into Being and (Almost) Passing Away of “Society” as Scientific Object; Marshall Sahlins, Sentimental Pessimism and Ethnographic Experience: Or Why Culture is not a Disappearing “Object”; Jed Z. Buchwald, How the Ether Spawned the Microworld; Theodore M. Porter, Life Insurance, Medical Testing, and the Management of Mortality; Bruno Latour, On the Partial Existence of Existing and Nonexisting Objects; Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Cytoplasmic Particles: The Trajectory of a Scientific Object.
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