Speculation: Or, The Glen Luna Family
Author : Anna Bartlett Warner
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Anna Bartlett Warner
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Gayle Rogers
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231553498
In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical reasoning are supposed to have provided greater certainty in making claims about the future. Yet we constantly spin out scenarios about tomorrow, for ourselves or for entire societies, with flimsy or no evidence. Insubstantial speculations—from utopian thinking to high-risk stock gambles—often provoke fierce backlash, even when they prove prophetic for the world we come to inhabit. Why does this hypothetical way of thinking generate such controversy? In this cultural, literary, and intellectual history, Gayle Rogers traces debates over speculation from antiquity to the present. Celebrated by Boethius as the height of humanity’s mental powers but denigrated as sinful by John Calvin, speculation eventually became central to the scientific revolution’s new methods of seeing the natural world. In the nineteenth century, writers such as Jane Austen used the concept to diagnose the marriage market, redefining speculation for the purpose of social critique. Speculation fueled the development of modern capitalism, spurring booms, busts, and bubbles, and recently artificial intelligence has automated the speculation previously done by humans, with uncertain and troubling consequences. Unraveling these histories and many other disputes, Rogers argues that what has always been at stake in arguments over speculation, and why it so often appears so threatening, is the authority to produce and control knowledge about the future. Recasting centuries of contests over the power to anticipate tomorrow, this book reveals the crucial role speculation has played in how we create—and potentially destroy—the future.
Author : Amy LOTHROP (pseud. [i.e. Anna Bartlett Warner.])
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : Samuel Halkett
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Samuel Halkett
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Susan Warner
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Sampson Low
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 1873
Category : English literature
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Author : Sampson Low
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 1873
Category : English imprints
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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
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Page : 940 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 1864
Category : English literature
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Vols. 1898- include a directory of publishers.
Author : Sampson Low
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Page : 930 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 1864
Category : English literature
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