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Quand le monde s'est fait nombre

Quand le monde s'est fait nombre

Rey, Olivier

Paperback

Series: Essais - Documents

General Sociology

ISBN10: 2234073391
ISBN13: 9782234073395
Publisher: Stock
Published: Mar 18 2024
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
WHEN THE WORLD BECAME NUMBERS

Statistics have become the keys to modern society. Curves, indexes, graphs and rates tell us what to think of reality. Statistics have become an all-encompassing social fact they cover everything in society and its institutions, and directly or indirectly they affect every aspect of our lives.
This new system is the culmination of a movement initiated at the birth of the modern era and which saw extraordinary expansion in the first half of the Nineteenth Century. Former regimes were swept aside by the industrial revolution, and these strange previously unknown models emerged: large societies of individuals. Nations became mysteries even to themselves. It was in the hope of understanding these mysteries that an avalanche of numbers, a flood of figures and tables started to appear across Europe. We are the heirs to that dynamic. If we now want a clear idea of what's going on and to have some hope of loosening the knots tying us down, we need to go back to the moment when those knots were first tied - we need to understand why and how the world became numbers.



Olivier Rey is a researcher at CNRS, a mathematician and a philosopher. He has been teaching mathematics at the École polytechnique and today teaches philosophy at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He is the author of several essays: Une question de taille (Stock, 2014), Itinéraire de l'égarement: Du Rôle de la science dans l'absurdité contemporaine (Le Seuil, 2003), Une folle solitude: Le Fantasme de l'homme auto- construit (Le Seuil, 2006) and Le Testament de Melville (Gallimard, 2011). He has also written two novels, Le Bleu du sang (Flammarion, 1994) et Après la chute (PGDR, 2014).

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