What is the History of Knowledge? - Burke Peter
What is the History of Knowledge? - Burke Peter What is the history of knowledge? Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws upon examples of this new kind of history from different periods and…
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What is the History of Knowledge? - Burke Peter
What is the history of knowledge? 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. 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.
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 He discusses some of the main concepts used by scholars working in the field, among them 'order of knowledge', 'situated knowledge' and 'knowledge society'.