Social History of Knowledge From Gutenberg to Diderot

Name: Social History of Knowledge From Gutenberg to Diderot
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ISBN: 9780745624853

ISBN-10: 0745624855

ISBN-13: 9780745624853

Edition: 2000

Authors: Peter Burke

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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 Encyclopdie.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…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 12/19/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.80" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



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Preface and Acknowledgements



Sociologies and Histories of Knowledge: an Introduction



Professing Knowledge: the European Clerisy



Establishing Knowledge: Institutions Old and New



Locating Knowledge: Centres and Peripheries



Classifying Knowledge: Curricula, Libraries and Encyclopaedias



Controlling Knowledge: Churches and States



Selling Knowledge: the Market and the Press



Acquiring Knowledge: The Reader's Share



Trusting and Distrusting Knowledge; a Coda


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Index