{"product_id":"rules-9780691156989","title":"Rules","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating. . . . [Daston] writes with a twinkling wit.\"\u003cb\u003e---Timothy Farrington, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In considering a series of historic anecdotes and texts, Daston helps us see rules (and their neighbors, such as laws and regulations) through the concepts of thickness and thinness, paradigms and algorithms, failures (it was nearly impossible to get eighteenth-century Parisians to stop playing ball in the streets), and states of exception. . . .By the end of Daston’s book, one feels a sense of clarity about how to think about rules, alongside a gentle sense of despair concerning what kinds of rules to hope for.\"\u003cb\u003e---Rivka Galchen, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wonderful and wildly ambitious. . . . For those of us who adore the deep and transformative history of concepts, [\u003ci\u003eRules\u003c\/i\u003e] is a pure dopamine rush. I read it with jaw dropped and mind racing.\"\u003cb\u003e---C. Thi Nguyen, \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003e[Daston writes] witty, wide-ranging and well-researched inquiries into the picaresque careers of such notions as ‘reality,’ ‘nature,’ ‘rationality,’ ‘objectivity’ and ‘order,’ and in her latest book she brings her wry historical intelligence to bear on the capacious concept of ‘rules.’ The delights of her scholarship are on full display.\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e---Jonathan Rée, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A timely release that will satisfy the mathematically curious, who hunger to know how algorithms actually work, as well anyone who loves debating policy.\" * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRules\u003c\/i\u003e is ultimately one of the best written, most profound, and most far-reaching works of intellectual history that I have ever read.\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e---Ernest Davis, \u003ci\u003eSIAM News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating and highly readable. . . .This book is a real tour de force of erudition and analysis with richly revealing examples.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Lorimer, \u003ci\u003eParadigm Explorer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is an exemplary intellectual history: a rangy, quirky, lucid and profound discussion.\"\u003cb\u003e---Colin Burrow, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403796422999,"sku":"9780691156989","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691156989.jpg?v=1730484570","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rules-9780691156989","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}