The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories
University of Chicago Press, 2020. 344 pages.
A book about participation? Chris Kelty’s delightful new book begins by giving voice to his audience’s likely incredulity. Mimicking the standard response to the project, he launches with the question, “Participation in what?” In everything and nothing, of course. He notes …
The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
by Steven Shapin
University of Chicago Press, 468 pp., $29.00 (Hardcover)
Reviewed by Talia Dan-Cohen, Princeton University
The Preface to Steven Shapin’s The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation, explains Shapin’s overarching commitment to a historical account with a sociological twist. Shapin’s main …