System
The Shaping of Modern Knowledge
$44.29
- Paperback
330 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2017
Summary
The role that “system” has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own “computational universe.“A system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer (Windows 10), or be made on a page (the fourteen engineered lines of a sonnet). In this book, Clifford Siskin shows that system is best understood as a genre-a form that works physically in the world to mediate our efforts to understand it. Indeed, many Enlightenment authors publ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534673 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262534673 |
| Author: | Clifford Siskin |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 330 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 321g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Infrastructures |
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Critics Review
System is… provocative, clearly argued, and deeply learned…. Siskin bridges scholarly divides too often seen as unbridgeable: between the Enlightenment and Romanticism, between poetry and prose, between close reading and distant reading, between traditional scholarship and digital scholarship, and so forth. The book is also a pleasure to read…. Overall, modern scholarship has much to learn from System.
—Jesse Molesworth, Modern Language QuarterlyAbout The Author
Clifford Siskin
Clifford Siskin is Henry W. and Alfred A. Berg Professor of English and American Literature at New York University, and Director of the Re-Enlightenment Project.
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