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On the Shoulders of Merchants

Exchange and the Mathematical Conception of Nature in Early Modern Europe

By: Richard W. Hadden

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On the Shoulders of Merchants

Exchange and the Mathematical Conception of Nature in Early Modern Europe

By: Richard W. Hadden

This book shows how the universal quantification of science resulted from the routinization of commercial practices that were familiar in scientists daily lives. Following the work of Franz Borkenau and Jacob Klein in the 1930s, the book describes the rise of the mechanistic world-view as a reification of relations of exchange in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Critical of more orthodox, positivist Marxist accounts of the rise of science, it argues that commercial reckoners, in keeping with the social relations in which their activity took place, delivered a new mathematical object, general magnitude, to the new mechanics. The book is an historical extension of the sociology of scientific knowledge and develops and refines themes found in the work of Alfred Sohn-Rethel and Gideon Freudenthal.

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220

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SUNY Press

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ISBN 10

0791420124

ISBN 13

9780791420126

Sociological Theory

An Introduction to the Classical Tradition

By: Richard W. Hadden

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Sociological Theory

An Introduction to the Classical Tradition

By: Richard W. Hadden

This is an introduction to the central concepts and arguments of the sociological theorists, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. It touches on the initial turn to sociological thought through a brief discussion of the Enlightenment, Conservative Reaction, Comte and Spencer. From this sociological blend of liberal and conservative ideas the work moves to its core discussion of the varying accounts of modern society found in the works of Marx, Durkheim and Weber. From Marx's reading of history and analysis of capitalism it moves through Durkheim's accounts of social solidarity and suicide to Weber's understanding of bureaucracy and of the religious foundations of the modern work ethic.

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180

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Broadview Press

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1551110954

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9781551110950