Ends of Knowledge : Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences by ...

Name: Ends of Knowledge : Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences by ...
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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 \u201Cthe last or furthest end of knowledge\u201D? It is a book about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done.\nIn the reorganization of knowledge that characterized the Enlightenment, disciplines were conceived as having particular \u201Cends,\u201D 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\n\nThe Ends of Knowledge\nOutcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal ;