{"product_id":"city-intelligible-a-philosophical-and-historical-anthropology-of-global-commoditisation-before-industrialisation-9789004414914","title":"City Intelligible: A Philosophical and Historical Anthropology of Global Commoditisation before Industrialisation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCity Intelligible seeks to integrate a transcendental philosophical anthropology of commoditisation before industrialisation with a social and cultural, thus empirical anthropology of commodity production and exchange that is global, thus inter-cultural. It treats commodification as a singular and privileged evidence of the universal status of human reasoning, and one that grounds the translational character of human exchange throughout the early centuries, and yet that simultaneously founds ubiquitous cultural differentiation. The book constitutes, therefore, a refutation of the predominant tendency in the humanities to represent cultural difference as inhibiting the very possibility of effective intercultural translation.  It treats the factors of economic history as forms of cultural expression, but determined, in their turn, by a continuum of complex societal formation from the very beginnings of intensive agricultural and social settlement. It seeks to derive evidence for the universal foundations of human reasoning through analysis of the culture of commoditisation in marrying a thoroughgoing Kantian analysis with the historical evidence, an approach aspiring to ground the very concept and possibility of a universal human cultural nature underlying all human differentiation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Ravi Ahuja  Acknowledgements  Notice to the Reader  List of Illustrations  More than a Preface or Introduction!: The Transcendental Constitution of the Cultural, Historical and Empirical Object: The Problem and Task of the Two Anthropologies   1Initial Notice—an Order of Reading   2The Subject Matter and the Project   3To Constitute History and Society … the Two Taxonomies   4The Three Criticisms   5A Critical and Transcendental Anthropology of Intercultural Translatability—the Question of Method   6Final Resolution of a Dilemma: The A-Priori, at Once Universal and Empirical   7The Composition of the Book    Part 1: Artifice \u0026amp; Nature: A Kantian and Historical Anthropology of Commoditisation before Industrialisation    1 From the Closed World to the Open Continuum   1Complexity, Language \u0026amp; Uncertainty     2Order, Unit \u0026amp; Convenience in Economic History. Language-Use as Problem   3Production and Marketing as an Issue of Complexity   4Alternative Principles of Order \u0026amp; Method   iThe Propositions   iiSampling as Method   iiiResources for Sampling, and a Hypothesis   ATextile Market-Censuses   BRaw Cottons   CPre-Spun Wools \u0026amp; Woollen Yarns   DThe Knowledge Problem   ELists of Coinages Brought to Particular Markets    2 Unpacking, Disengaging and Linking   1The Production and Marketing of Type: Phases, Extensions, Disengagements and Articulations   iThe « Raw Materials » of Production   AEmpirical Linkage   BInitial Implications   iiCloth Typologies     iiiSpeciation in Field \u0026amp; Market (Autonomy for Connection)   2Quality and Number   3A Second Object World   1The Continuum   iA Problem of Method   iiCommodity Nature   AAn Artificial Object World, \u0026amp; Its Taxonomy   BMarketisation as Communication   aMarkets \u0026amp; Complexity   bThe Issue of Translatability—Markets \u0026amp; Frontiers   cMarkets \u0026amp; Information   2Kant’s Tower of Babel \u0026amp; the Cultural Universal   iMetaphor \u0026amp; Construction   iiA Kantian Approach to Commoditisation \u0026amp; Translatability   iiiThe Universal and Cultural Difference   AThe Problem of the Very Idea of a Universal Culture and Mind   BFirst Invalid—the Biological A-Priori   CSecond Invalid—Plurality of Societies as a Priori   DAn Answer—Historical Generation of the Universal as a History of Differentiation   3Cultural and Natural Space\/Times   iIntroduction. for an Explanation of Difference   iiNewtonian Space\/Time \u0026amp; Practical Knowledge   iiiSpecies Construction and Its Transcendental Space\/Time   ivExtension in Space\/Time   ARephrasing the Coordinates of Choice \u0026amp; Limit with Respect to Reason   BNeither Closed nor Infinite, but Finite \u0026amp; Illimitable   aA Unity of Formative and Constructional Principle of the Exotic   bBut What Kind of Unity?   cA Poesis of the Incomparable   dNot an Infinity but Finitude   eA Finitude Closed and Bounded? or Open and Illimitable? Our Return to Kant!   fThinking the Object into Being and the Reality-Status of That Thought   gAn Edifice Built Only with Matter Accessible to Human Kind   CFurther Thoughts about the Meaning of a « Universal » Culture of Practice and Mind   vIntersubjectivity and Non-Essentialist Construction   4Postface    Part 2: Taxonomy \u0026amp; Commodity: In Global Transfers of Plant Forms and Plant Products into Early-modern Europe (the cultural production of nature, or the foundations of early botany)   Introduction to Part 2: Plant Artifice\/Plant Nature   4A General Framework   1Introduction: Artifice \u0026amp; Nature   2Contexts, Empirical \u0026amp; Intellectual   3Foundational Difficulties   iProblem Domains   iiSubstantive Discussion   AThe Continuum of Culture, Language and Systematics, and Thus Translatability   BThe Cultural Specificity of Any Grown Plant. Selection in Artificial Botanies   CMarket Determination of « Artificial » Plant Variation   DA Partial Explanation in Terms of Transmission of Cultural Universals, in the Kantian Sense   5Foundations of Botany in Western Europe   1Europe and the World: The Phases and Aspects of Botanical Taxonomy and Abstraction   iMedical Botany, Horta Botanica, Taxonomies \u0026amp; Pharmacopoeia   iiThe Concept of Type, Agricultural Part-Products \u0026amp; Market Continua   6A Postface: Narrative Style, Evolutionary Form, and the Shaping of an Early Science: Botany   Appendix 1Order in Artificial and Spontaneous Natures   Appendix 2« The Phenomenology Lesson ». A Commentary on the Illustrations   Bibliography   1Introduction: Selection and Translation   2Kant, Hegel and Husserl 54   3General Bibliography   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210787086679,"sku":"9789004414914","price":154.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/city-intelligible-a-philosophical-and-historical-anthropology-of-global-commoditisation-before-industrialisation-9789004414914","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}