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The Ends of Knowledge
- Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences
Engelsk Paperback
The Ends of Knowledge
- Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences
Engelsk Paperback

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Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is “the last or furthest end of knowledge”? It is a book about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done.

In the reorganization of knowledge that characterized the Enlightenment, disciplines were conceived as having particular “ends,” both in terms of purposes and end-points. As we experience an ongoing shift to the knowledge economy of the Information Age, this collection asks whether we still conceptualize knowledge in this way. Does an individual discipline have both an inherent purpose and a natural endpoint? What do an experiment on a fruit fly, a reading of a poem, and the writing of a line of code have in common?

Focusing on areas as diverse as AI; biology; Black studies; literary studies; physics; political activism; and the concept of disciplinarity itself, contributors uncover a life after disciplinarity for subjects that face immediate threats to the structure if not the substance of their contributions. These essays – whether reflective, historical, eulogistic, or polemical – chart a vital and necessary course towards the reorganization of knowledge production as a whole.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9781350242289
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1350242284
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
29 jun 2023
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
158mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
29 jun 2023
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge