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• Into the belly of the beast
• The prince of whales
• A cetaceous parliament
• Trials of force
• Shots across the bow.

• List of Figures xi Chapter One: Introduction 1 The Peace Offering That Stank 1 Maurice v. Judd and the History of Science 5 From Dock to Docket 14
• Chapter Two: Common Sense 19 Manhattan and Its Whales 19
• Chapter Three: The Philosophical Whale 44 Samuel Latham Mitchill and Natural History in New York City 44 "No More a Fish than a Man" 61 Taxonomy at the Bar 72
• Chapter Four: Naturalists in the Crow's Nest 95 What the Whalemen Knew 95
• Chapter Five: Men of Affairs 145 The Whale in the Swamp ?145
• Chapter Six: The Jury Steps Out 166 The Knickerbockers Slay a Yankee Whale 166 Who Decides Who Decides? 167 Picking Up the Pisces 178
• Chapter Seven: Conclusion 190 New Science, New York, New Nation 190 Epilogue:Whales and Fish, Philosophers and Historians, Science and Society 210
• Acknowledgments 223 Bibliography 225 Index 247.
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In "Moby-Dick", Ishmael declares, 'Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me'. Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century - one that ultimately had to be resolved in the courts of New York City. In "Trying Leviathan", D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular - and biblically sanctioned - view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature - and how we know it - was at stake. Burnett vividly recreates the trial, during which a parade of experts - pea-coated whalemen, pompous philosophers, Jacobin lawyers - took the witness stand, brandishing books, drawings, and anatomical reports, and telling tall tales from whaling voyages. Falling in the middle of the century between Linnaeus and Darwin, the trial dramatized a revolutionary period that saw radical transformations in the understanding of the natural world. Out went comfortable biblical categories, and in came new sorting methods based on the minutiae of interior anatomy - and louche details about the sexual behaviors of God's creatures. When leviathan breached in New York in 1818, this strange beast churned both the natural and social orders--and not everyone would survive.
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• List of Figures xi Chapter One: Introduction 1 The Peace Offering That Stank 1 Maurice v. Judd and the History of Science 5 From Dock to Docket 14 Chapter Two: Common Sense 19 Manhattan and Its Whales 19 Chapter Three: The Philosophical Whale 44 Samuel Latham Mitchill and Natural History in New York City 44 "No More a Fish than a Man" 61 Taxonomy at the Bar 72 Chapter Four: Naturalists in the Crow's Nest 95 What the Whalemen Knew 95 Chapter Five: Men of Affairs 145 The Whale in the Swamp ?145 Chapter Six: The Jury Steps Out 166 The Knickerbockers Slay a Yankee Whale 166 Who Decides Who Decides? 167 Picking Up the Pisces 178 Chapter Seven: Conclusion 190 New Science, New York, New Nation 190 Epilogue:Whales and Fish, Philosophers and Historians, Science and Society 210 Acknowledgments 223 Bibliography 225 Index 247.
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In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in the courts of New York City. In Trying Leviathan, D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular--and biblically sanctioned--view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature--and how we know it--was at stake. Burnett vividly recreates the trial, during which a parade of experts--pea-coated whalemen, pompous philosophers, Jacobin lawyers--took the witness stand, brandishing books, drawings, and anatomical reports, and telling tall tales from whaling voyages. Falling in the middle of the century between Linnaeus and Darwin, the trial dramatized a revolutionary period that saw radical transformations in the understanding of the natural world. Out went comfortable biblical categories, and in came new sorting methods based on the minutiae of interior anatomy--and louche details about the sexual behaviors of God's creatures. When leviathan breached in New York in 1818, this strange beast churned both the natural and social orders--and not everyone would survive.
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• Lens making in the seventeenth century : the machine in context
• In pursuit of the curve
• A twin legacy : hyperbolic lenses and mechanical makers
• Conclusion : doubting artisans and hyperbolic doubt.

Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, this work tells the story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's South American colony, Guyana.
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• The American creed
• The women of the new nation
• Enterprise : commercial and social
• Republican mothers in action
• Social enterprise and the founding of American religious orders
• A market-based social enterprise solution
• The agonizing issue of slavery
• Individualism and social profit in the post civil war era
• Building of national organizations for social profit
• Investors in social profit enterprise
• Social science, social service, and social profit
• Partnerships with the federal government
• Conclusion : cooperative individualism.

America's founding fathers established an idealistic framework for a bold experiment in democratic governance. The new nation would be built on the belief that all men are created equal, and are endowed...with a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The challenge of turning these ideals into reality for all citizens was taken up by a set of exceptional American women. Distinguished scholar and civic leader Claire Gaudiani calls these women social entrepreneurs, " arguing that they brought the same drive and strategic intent to their pursuit of the greater good" that their male counterparts applied to building the nation's capital markets throughout the nineteenth century. Gaudiani tells the stories of these patriotic women, and their creation of America's unique not-for-profit, or social profit" sector. She concludes that the idealism and optimism inherent in this work provided an important asset to the increasing prosperity of the nation from its founding to the Second World War. Social entrepreneurs have defined a system of governance by the people, " and they remain our best hope for continued moral leadership in the world.
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• On the border of the real / Elizabeth Armstrong
• From the real to the more real: a brief historical and philosophical sketch of hyperreality and its roots in realism, impressionism, surrealism, pop art, and postmodernism / Mark Levy
• Make-believe: parafiction and plausibility / Carrie Lambert-Beatty
• Making history: some thoughts on contemporary art and the Middle East / Glenn D. Lowry
• Truthiness and the more real: what is the difference? / Tom Gunning
• In lies begin responsibilities / D. Graham Burnett
• The charm of the lie: a history of our unreliable grasp of the real / Norman M. Klein
• The artists / texts by Christopher Atkins, Janet Dees, Irene Hofmann, Joan Rothfuss, and Nicole Soukup. Ai Weiwei ; Seung Woo Back ; Zoe Beloff ; Cao Fei ; Thomas Demand ; Mark Dion ; Leandro Erlich ; Omer Fast ; Kianga Ford ; John Gerrard ; Johan Grimonprez ; Iris Häussler ; Jonn Herschend ; Pierre Huyghe ; Bertrand Lavier ; An-My Lê ; Joel Lederer ; Sharon Lockhart ; Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle ; Eva and Franco Mattes ; Jonathan Monk ; Vik Muniz ; Trevor Paglen ; Walid Raad ; Dario Robleto ; Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation ; Mary Temple ; The Yes Men.

As viewers of the "Colbert Report" know, we are living in an age of "truthiness" - where things we wish to be true are preferred to things that are known to be true. More Real? features an international contingent of contemporary artists whose work most aptly represents this modern conundrum in a variety of ways, from trompe l'oeil to digital manipulation. A series of scholarly, entertaining and generously illustrated essays approach the concept of reality from a variety of perspectives: science and technology; the role of the cinema; the "parafictional" in art; diaspora artists from the Middle East; and historical trends from the Age of Reason to our current state. In an age when the relationship between truth and fiction has never been murkier, More Real? explores our constantly changing sense of what is real, and the consequences of not understanding the difference.
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• Introduction ix Academia 1 Amateur 3 Art 4 Audience 5 Bibliography 6 Canon 7 Citation 8 Committee 10 Critique 11 Department 12 Dialectic 13 Dictionary 14 Discipline 15 Discourse 16 Education 17 Emancipation 19 Epistemology 20 Erudition 22 Excellence 24 Experience 25 Expertise 26 Field 29 FTE 31 Genre 32 Graduate Student 34 History 36 Humanities 40 Intellectual Labor 43 Interdisciplinarity 45 Interpretation 46 Irony 48 Knowledge Production 49 Medium 50 Metaphysics 52 Method 53 Methodology 55 Model 57 New Criticism 59 Object 61 Occupational Hazard 62 Peer Review 63 Practice 66 Profession 67 Progress 69 Reading 70 Regulation 71 Rigor 72 School 74 Science 77 Significance 81 Subject 82 Symposium 84 Teaching 85 Text 88 Theology 89 Tradition 90 University 91 Vocation 94.
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An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and culture The university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential institution. Bastions of free inquiry and a free society, engines of social transformation and economic progress, enclosed gardens of ennobling reflection and creation, universities encompass the wisdom of the past and the hope of the future. Or do they? This critical glossary-written by a group of Princeton graduate students and faculty-defines fifty-eight terms common to academic life in a style that will prick both egos and consciences. From "academia" to "vocation, " "canon" to "peer review, " "discipline" to "methodology, " the book scrutinizes the often stultifying structures of modern disciplinary life, calls out a slavish devotion to "knowledge production" as the enemy of thought, and even dissects the notion of "academic excellence." Feisty and darkly funny, passionate and deeply insightful, this book raises hard questions about teaching, research, theory, practice, and academic labor. The result is a must-read dispatch from today's academic trenches-one that is sure to provoke discussion and debate.
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