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Social History of Knowledge : From Gutenberg to Diderot

by Peter Burke
Social History of Knowledge : From Gutenberg to Diderot - Thryft
Social History of Knowledge : From Gutenberg to Diderot - Thryft

Exploring the evolution of knowledge in Europe.

This book is great for anyone interested in the history of knowledge and its transformation in Europe. With a focus on printed knowledge and academic institutions, Burke examines the role of cities, markets, and politics in the gathering and spreading of information. He also discusses different types of knowledge, such as male and female, theoretical and practical, and European and non-European, showing how they interacted and evolved over time. Burke's approach is both sociological and cultural, providing a unique perspective on the history of knowledge.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Social History of Knowledge : From Gutenberg to Diderot

by Peter Burke
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ISBN: 9780745624853
Authors: Peter Burke
Publisher: Polity
Date of Publication: 2000-12-19
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Philosophy, History, Sociology, Science
Related Topics: History, European History, World History, Education, History, Education
Goodreads rating: 3.92
(rated by 160 readers)

Description

In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopedie. The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions (especially universities and academies) which encouraged or discouraged intellectual innovation. Then, in a series of separate chapters, Burke explores the geography, anthropology, politics and economics of knowledge, focusing on the role of cities, academies, states and markets in the process of gathering, classifying, spreading and sometimes concealing information. The final chapters deal with knowledge from the point of view of the individual reader, listener, viewer or consumer, including the problem of the reliability of knowledge discussed so vigorously in the seventeenth century. One of the most original features of this book is its discussion of knowledges in the plural. It centres on printed knowledge, especially academic knowledge, but it treats the history of the knowledge 'explosion' which followed the invention of printing and the discovery of the world beyond Europe as a process of exchange or negotiation between different knowledges, such as male and female, theoretical and practical, high-status and low-status, and European and non-European. Although written primarily as a contribution to social or socio-cultural history, this book will also be of interest to historians of science, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers and others in another age of information explosion.
 

Exploring the evolution of knowledge in Europe.

This book is great for anyone interested in the history of knowledge and its transformation in Europe. With a focus on printed knowledge and academic institutions, Burke examines the role of cities, markets, and politics in the gathering and spreading of information. He also discusses different types of knowledge, such as male and female, theoretical and practical, and European and non-European, showing how they interacted and evolved over time. Burke's approach is both sociological and cultural, providing a unique perspective on the history of knowledge.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.