Rules: A Short History of What We Live By
English edition
English edition cover.
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By
Cover of the consulted English Princeton University Press edition, 2022. The Ukrainian translation has not been compared.
Cover sourceA history of rules in the Western tradition, from artisanal and culinary precepts to algorithms, laws and everyday norms. Lorraine Daston examines how rules relate to experience, judgment and assumptions about an orderly world.