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Knowledge Lost - A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History (Hardcover)
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Knowledge Lost - A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History (Hardcover)
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A compelling alternative account of the history of knowledge from
the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Until now the history of
knowledge has largely been about formal and documented
accumulation, concentrating on systems, collections, academies, and
institutions. The central narrative has been one of advancement,
refinement, and expansion. Martin Mulsow tells a different story.
Knowledge can be lost: manuscripts are burned, oral learning dies
with its bearers, new ideas are suppressed by censors. Knowledge
Lost is a history of efforts, from the Renaissance to the
Enlightenment, to counter such loss. It describes how critics of
ruling political and religious regimes developed tactics to
preserve their views; how they buried their ideas in footnotes and
allusions; how they circulated their tracts and treatises in
handwritten copies; and how they commissioned younger scholars to
spread their writings after death. Filled with exciting stories,
Knowledge Lost follows the trail of precarious knowledge through a
series of richly detailed episodes. It deals not with the major
themes of metaphysics and epistemology, but rather with
interpretations of the Bible, Orientalism, and such marginal zones
as magic. And it focuses not on the usual major thinkers, but
rather on forgotten or half-forgotten members of the "knowledge
underclass," such as Pietro della Vecchia, a libertine painter and
intellectual; Charles-Cesar Baudelot, an antiquarian and
numismatist; and Johann Christoph Wolf, a pastor, Hebrew scholar,
and witness to the persecution of heretics. Offering a fascinating
new approach to the intellectual history of early modern Europe,
Knowledge Lost is also an ambitious attempt to rethink the very
concept of knowledge.
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