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The original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge"
dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles
Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the
classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval
Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly
abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and
evaluating long term intellectual changes, especially those arising
from the impact of humanist scholarship, the new science of the
seventeenth century, and attempts to evaluate, to apply, to
reconcile, and to institutionalize these rival and interacting
traditions. Yet such patterns and transformations cannot be well
understood from the heights of the general history of ideas. Within
the eneral framework of the organization of knowledge the map must
be filled in by particular explorations and soundings, and our
project called for a conference that would combine some
encyclopedic (as well as interdisciplinary and inter national)
breadth with scholarly and technical depth."
The original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge"
dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles
Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the
classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval
Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly
abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and
evaluating long term intellectual changes, especially those arising
from the impact of humanist scholarship, the new science of the
seventeenth century, and attempts to evaluate, to apply, to
reconcile, and to institutionalize these rival and interacting
traditions. Yet such patterns and transformations cannot be well
understood from the heights of the general history of ideas. Within
the eneral framework of the organization of knowledge the map must
be filled in by particular explorations and soundings, and our
project called for a conference that would combine some
encyclopedic (as well as interdisciplinary and inter national)
breadth with scholarly and technical depth."
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