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"Socially and conceptually, we are disciplined by our disciplines.
They help produce our world. They specify the objects we can study
(genes, deviant persons, classic texts) and the relations that
obtain among them (mutation, criminality, canonicity). They provide
criteria for our knowledge (truth, significance, impact) and the
methods (quantification, interpretation, analysis) that regulate
our access to it. We have come to see these disciplines as so
natural that we tend to forget their historical novelty and fail to
imagine how else we might produce and organise knowledge", write
the editors in the Introduction to this book. They have brought
together a diverse group of contributors to examine how all sorts
of knowledges have been constituted and how to reconsider their
constitution. The essayists concentrate on several issues: how
particular disciplines came into being (genealogy); how disciplines
are demarcated from each other and from other ways of knowing
(boundary-work); how disciplines are ordered internally (field
construction); how individuals learn to be disciplinary
practitioners (socialising practices); and how disciplines might be
superseded as ways of producing knowledge (counter- and
post-disciplinary projects). These five topics are refracted
through a broad range of disciplines: accounting, art history,
biochemistry, economics, education, gay studies, history of
science, international relations, law, literary studies,
mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, particle physics, and the
philosophy of the social sciences. For all their breadth, the
essays have considerable resonance. All of them imply the
possibility of moving beyond disciplines to new ways,of knowing.
Collectively, they challenge the universe of scholarship to new
levels of self-consciousness and creativity.
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