A social history of knowledge II., From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
"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 wr...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, UK
Polity
2012
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-739 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [300]-334) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 359 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780745659619 |