ISBN:
9780300252088
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 328 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Burke, Peter, 1937 - The polymath
DDC:
305.5520922
Keywords:
Learning and scholarship-History
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Knowledge, Theory of-History
;
Intellectuals-History
;
Electronic books
;
Polyhistor
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Neuzeit
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Wissenschaftstheorie
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Polyhistor
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Geschichte 1400 - 2000
Abstract:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph page -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION WHAT IS A POLYMATH? -- DEFINITIONS -- DISCIPLINES -- AIMS AND METHODS -- TYPES OF POLYMATH -- THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE POLYMATH -- 1 EAST AND WEST -- THE GREEKS -- THE ROMANS -- CHINA -- EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE -- THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES -- 2 THE AGE OF THE 'RENAISSANCE MAN' 1400-1600 -- THE IDEAL OF UNIVERSALITY -- THE MYTH OF UNIVERSALITY -- ACTION AND THOUGHT -- SCHOLARS -- UNITY AND CONCORD -- ARTISTS AND ENGINEERS -- LEONARDO -- THE RENAISSANCE WOMAN -- 3 THE AGE OF 'MONSTERS OF ERUDITION' 1600-1700 -- THE AGE OF POLYMATHS -- FEMALE POLYMATHS -- THE LANGUAGE OF POLYMATHY -- THE POLYMATH AS ENCYCLOPAEDIST: ALSTED -- THE POLYMATH AS PANSOPHIST: COMENIUS -- MONSTERS OF ERUDITION -- THE POLYMATH AS COLLECTOR: PEIRESC -- THE POLYMATH AS SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHER: CARAMUEL -- THE POLYMATH AS PATRIOT: RUDBECK -- THE POLYMATH AS PANSOPHIST: KIRCHER -- THE POLYMATH AS CRITIC: BAYLE -- THE POLYMATH AS SYNTHESIZER: LEIBNIZ -- MINOR POLYMATHS -- CONCORD -- ORIGINALITY VERSUS PLAGIARISM -- EXPLAINING THE GOLDEN AGE -- THE CRISIS OF KNOWLEDGE -- INFORMATION OVERLOAD -- FRAGMENTATION -- POLYMATHS UNDER FIRE -- LEONARDO SYNDROME -- 4 THE AGE OF THE 'MAN OF LETTERS' 1700-1850 -- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- PEDANTS AND POLYHISTORS -- A NEW IDEAL -- MEN OF LETTERS -- WOMEN OF LETTERS -- THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT -- THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT -- THE ENGLISH ENLIGHTENMENT -- FROM SPAIN TO RUSSIA -- THE NEW WORLD -- ENGLAND -- GERMANY -- SYSTEM BUILDERS -- THE SURVIVAL OF THE MAN OF LETTERS -- FRENCH CRITICS -- ENGLISH CRITICS -- THE NEW WOMEN OF LETTERS -- SCIENTISTS -- GERMAN SCIENTISTS -- BRITISH SCIENTISTS -- TOWARDS A NEW CRISIS -- 5 THE AGE OF TERRITORIALITY 1850-2000 -- POLYMATHS IN A COLD CLIMATE.
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