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What is the History of Knowledge? (Paperback)
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What is the History of Knowledge? (Paperback)
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What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible
introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of
the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, knowledges in
the plural ) and how it differs from the history of science,
intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural
history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon
examples of this new kind of history from different periods and
from the history of India, East Asia and the Islamic world as well
as from Europe and the Americas. He discusses some of the main
concepts used by scholars working in the field, among them order of
knowledge , situated knowledge and knowledge society . This book
tells the story of the transformation of relatively raw information
into knowledge via processes of classification, verification and so
on, the dissemination of this knowledge and finally its employment
for different purposes, by governments, corporations or private
individuals. A concluding chapter identifies central problems in
the history of knowledge, from triumphalism to relativism, together
with attempts to solve them. The only book of its kind yet to be
published, What is the History of Knowledge? will be essential
reading for all students of history and the humanities in general,
as well as the interested general reader.
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