Matters of Exchange
Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2008
576 pages
978-0-300-13492-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this provocative book, Richard Sennett looks at the ways today's global, ever-mutable form of capitalism is affecting our lives. He analyzes how changes in work ethic, in our attitudes toward merit and talent, and in public and private institutions have all contributed to what he terms 'the spectre of uselessness', and he concludes with suggestions to counter this disturbing new culture.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- One Worldly Goods and the Transformations of Objectivity
- Two An Information Economy
- Three Reformations Tempered: In Pursuit of Natural Facts
- Four Commerce and Medicine in Amsterdam
- Five Truths and Untruths from the Indies
- Six Medicine and Materialism: Descartes in the Republic
- Seven Industry and Analysis
- Eight Gardens of the Indies Transported
- Nine Translating What Works: The Medicine of East Asia
- Ten The Refusal to Speculate: Sticking to Simple Things
- Eleven Conclusions and Comparisons
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
