Rules : a short history of what we live by /
"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...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Хэл сонгох: | англи |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2022]
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| Цуврал: | Lawrence Stone lectures.
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| Онлайн хандалт: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv27qzsfn |
| Тойм: | "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"-- |
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| Биет тодорхойлолт: | 1 online resource (xiii, 359 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Номзүй: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691239185 9780691239187 9780691156989 0691156980 9780691254081 0691254087 |