{"product_id":"the-ends-of-knowledge-9781350242289","title":"The Ends of Knowledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is the last or furthest end of knowledge? It is a book about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done.   In the reorganization of knowledge that characterized the Enlightenment, disciplines were conceived as having particular ends, 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 code have in common?Focusing on areas as diverse as AI; biology; Black studies; literary studies; physics; political activism; and the concept of disciplinarity itself, contributors uncover a life after di\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is organized around a central pun like all great works of scholarship. It queries the ends of knowledge, but here the “end” might mean telos, completion or cessation. The editors have assembled a genuinely productive and heterogeneous collection, but they wisely acknowledge that their volume is open-ended, unfinished and generative in the spirit of the Enlightenment encyclopedia project which provides its inspiration and warrant. -- Al Coppola,  Associate Professor of English , John Jay College, CUNY, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface                                                                                                                                                         \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSeth Rudy and Rachael Scarborough King\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart I: Unification\u003c\/b\u003e                                                                                                                         The Ends of Physics                                                                                                                     \u003ci\u003eB. R. Brown\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of Literary Studies                                                                                                          \u003ci\u003eAaron Hanlon\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of Computing                                                                                                                 \u003ci\u003eGeoffrey C. Bowker\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of Biology                                                                                                                        \u003ci\u003eB.N. Queenan\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of Digital Humanities                                                                                                    \u003ci\u003eMark Algee-Hewitt\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II: Access                                                                                                                             \u003c\/b\u003e The Ends of Law                                                                                                                            \u003ci\u003eYochai Benkler\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of Journalism                                                                                                                 \u003ci\u003eJolene Almendarez\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of Pedagogy                                                                                                                   \u003ci\u003eSean Michael Morris\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of the Liberal Arts                                                                                                         \u003ci\u003eG. Gabrielle Starr\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart III: Utopia\u003c\/b\u003e                                                                                                                            The Ends of Artificial Intelligence                                                                                               \u003ci\u003eHong Qu\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of Gender Studies                                                                                                          \u003ci\u003eUla Lukszo Klein\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of Activism                                                                                                                    \u003ci\u003eAdy Barkan\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of Environmental Studies                                                                                        \u003ci\u003eMyanna Lahsen\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Concepts                                                                                                                 \u003c\/b\u003e The Ends of Performance Studies                                                                                           \u003ci\u003eJessica Nakamura\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of History                                                                                                                 \u003ci\u003eMarieke Hendriksen\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of Black Studies                                                 \u003ci\u003eKenneth W. Warren\u003c\/i\u003e The Ends of Cultural Studies                                                                                                   \u003ci\u003eMike Hill\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAfterword\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eClifford Siskin\u003c\/i\u003e  List of Contributors Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738609463639,"sku":"9781350242289","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350242289.jpg?v=1720049641","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ends-of-knowledge-9781350242289","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}