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Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups, institutions, collective practices and general trends. The book is divided into 3 parts. The first argues that activities which appear to be timeless - gathering knowledge, analysing, disseminating and employing it -
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Literaturverz. S. [300] - 334
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"The book is divided into 3 parts. The first argues that activities which appear to be timeless - gathering knowledge, analysing, disseminating and employing it - are in fact time-bound and take different forms in different periods and places. The second part tries to counter the tendency to write a triumphalist history of the 'growth' of knowledge by discussing losses of knowledge and the price of specialization. The third part offers geographical, sociological and chronological overviews, contrasting the experience of centres and peripheries and arguing that each of the main trends of the period - professionalization, secularization, nationalization, democratization, etc, coexisted and interacted with its opposite."--Publisher
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[V. 1.] From Gutenberg to Diderot -- v. 2. From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia.
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"Volume II, This book is divided into 3 parts. The first argues that activities which appear to be timeless - gathering knowledge, analysing, disseminating and employing it - are in fact time-bound and take different forms in different periods and places. The second part tries to counter the tendency to write a triumphalist history of the 'growth' of knowledge by discussing losses of knowledge and the price of specialization. The third part offers geographical, sociological and chronological overviews, contrasting the experience of centres and peripheries and arguing that each of the main trends of the period - professionalization, secularization, nationalization, democratization, etc, coexisted and interacted with its opposite."--Publisher
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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"Based on the first series of Vonhoff Lectures given at the University of Groningen (Netherlands)."--T.p. [v. 1]
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-334) and index
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Cover; Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Knowledge Practices; 1 Gathering Knowledges; Gathering Knowledge; The Second Age of Discovery; Scientific Expeditions; A Third Age of Discovery?; In Search of Past Cultures; The Discovery of Time; Surveys; The Accumulation of Specimens; Varieties of Fieldwork; Varieties of Observation; Listening and Interrogating; Questionnaires; Recording; Notes and Files; Storage; Conclusion; 2 Analysing Knowledges; Classifying; Deciphering; Reconstructing; Evaluation; Dating; Counting and Measuring; DescribingComparing; Explaining; Interpreting; Narrating; Theorizing; 3 Disseminating Knowledges; Speaking; Displaying; Writing; The Periodical Press; Books; Visual Aids; 4 Employing Knowledges; Retrieval; The Idea of Useful Knowledge; Knowledge in Business and Industry; Knowledge in War; Knowledge in Government; Knowledge in Empires; Knowledge in the Universities; Alternative Institutions; Convergence; Part II: The Price of Progress; 5 Losing Knowledges; Hiding Knowledges; Destroying Knowledges; Discarding Knowledges; Libraries and Encyclopaedias; Discarding Ideas; Astrology; Phrenology; ParapsychologyRace and Eugenics; 6 Dividing Knowledges; The Decline of the Polymath; The Rise of the Scientist; Societies, Journals and Congresses; Disciplines; Experts and Expertise; Fields; Interdisciplinarity; Teamwork; The Survival of an Endangered Species; Part III: A Social History in Three Dimensions; 7 Geographies of Knowledge; Micro-spaces; Nationalizing Knowledge; The Commonwealth of Learning; Centres and Peripheries; Voices from the Edge; Migrants and Exiles; Denationalizing Knowledge; Globalizing Knowledge; 8 Sociologies of Knowledge; Economics of Knowledge; The Politics of KnowledgeBig versus Small States; Scholars under Pressure; The Rise of Centralization; Knowledge and War; The American Government as Patron of Research; Varieties of Knowledge Worker; The Working Classes; Knowledgeable Women; Institutions and Innovation; Schools of Thought; 9 Chronologies of Knowledge; The Knowledge Explosion; Secularization and Counter-Secularization; Short Trends; The Reform of Knowledge, 1750-1800; The Knowledge Revolution, 1800-50; The Rise of Disciplines, 1850-1900; The Crisis of Knowledge, 1900-1950; Technologizing Knowledge, 1940-1990; The Age of Reflexivities, 1990-References; Index
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Gathering knowledgesAnalysing knowledges -- Disseminating knowledges -- Employing knowledges -- Losing knowledges -- Dividing knowledges -- Geographies of knowledge -- Sociologies of knowledge -- Chronologies of knowledge.
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Erschienen: [1] - 2
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Erkenntnis
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Wissenssoziologie
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Geschichte
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Wissenschaft
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Wissen
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Enzyklopädie
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Geschichte
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38670
URL:
The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page
Author information:
Burke, Peter 1937-
