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Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History
Episode: Vera Keller, "The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Description: Many accounts of the scientific revolution portray it as a time when scientists disciplined knowledge by first disciplining their own behavior. According to these views, scientists such as Francis Bacon produced certain knowledge by pacifying their emotions and concentrating on method. In The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (Johns Hopkins Press, 2023), Dr. Vera Keller rejects this emphasis on discipline and instead argues that what distinguished early modernity was a navigation away from restraint and toward the violent blending of knowledge from across society and around the globe.Dr. Keller follows early seventeenth-century English "pr...