Social History of Knowledge II Burke Peter
Social History of Knowledge II Burke Peter Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History ofKnowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around1750 at the publication of the French…
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Social History of Knowledge II Burke Peter
Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History ofKnowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around1750 at the publication of the French Encyclop die andfollowing the story through to Wikipedia. The first argues thatactivities which appear to be timeless - gathering knowledge, analysing, disseminating and employing it - are in fact time-boundand take different forms in different periods and places. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology ofknowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but ongroups, institutions, collective practices and general trends.The book is divided into 3 parts.
The third part offersgeographical, sociological and Thesecond part tries to counter the tendency to write a triumphalisthistory of the 'growth' of knowledge by discussing losses ofknowledge and the price of specialization.
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