Böcker av Clifford Siskin

The role that "system" has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own "computational universe."

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the question, 'What is Enlightenment'? This book offers a paradigm-shifting answer to that query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of mediation. It establishes mediation as the condition of possibility for enlightenment.