EAN: 9780691156989

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

"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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