The Ends of Knowledge
King, Rachael Scarborough / Rudy, Seth
Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists fromacross 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, andhow we might know when we are done.In the reorganization of knowledge that characterized the Enlightenment, disciplineswere conceived as having particular "ends, " both in terms of purposes ...