Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Change and Exchange (1st ed. 2020) (Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature #2)

By: Subha Mukherji and Dunstan Roberts and Rebecca Tomlin and George Oppitz-Trotman

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Synopsis: Placing ‘literature’ at the centre of Renaissance economic knowledge, this book offers a distinct intervention in the history of early modern epistemology. It is premised on the belief that early modern practices of change and exchange produced a range of epistemic shifts and crises, which, nonetheless, lacked a systematic vocabulary. These essays collectively tap into the imaginative kernel at the core of economic experience, to grasp and give expression to some of its more elusive experiential dimensions. The essays gathered here probe the early modern interface between imaginative and mercantile knowledge, between technologies of change in the field of commerce and transactions in the sphere of cultural production, and between forms of transaction and representation. In the process, they go beyond the specific interrelation of economic life and literary work to bring back into view the thresholds between economics on the one hand, and religious, legal and natural philosophical epistemologies on the other.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030376512
Related ISBNs:: 9783030376505
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 10/10/20
Copyrighted By:: Springer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Business and Finance, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
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Edited by:: Subha Mukherji
Edited by:: Dunstan Roberts
Edited by:: Rebecca Tomlin
Edited by:: George Oppitz-Trotman