History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Kelley, Donald R. (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 1878822853 / ISBN 13: 9781878822857

Published by University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, 1997

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1997. viii, 344pp. Both book and unclipped dust jacket both in excellent condition with no inscriptions. "This collection of essays addresses, in specific historical ways and from particular disciplinary standpoints, the problem of knowledge and what is used to be called the classification of the sciences. What is, or what passes for, knowledge? What are its divisions, and how should they be related? How is it transmitted, and how can its history be understood and written? Ranging across the epistemological barrier formed by the revolution of modern science, these contributions inquire into the changing disciplinary patterns of the tumultuous times, between the renaissance and the enlightenment, that saw the fragmentation of old ideals and the creation of European modernity.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1878822853
• ISBN 13: 9781878822857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

A collection of essays from some of the world's leading intellectual historians, representing an international spectrum of research into the history of philosophy, intellect, science and music.

This collection of essays addresses, in specific historical ways and from particular disciplinary standpoints, the problem of knowledge and what used to be called the classification of the sciences. What is, or what passes for, knowledge? What are its divisions, and how should they be related? Who possesses this knowledge, and to what uses has it been put? How is it transmitted, and how can its history be understood and written? Ranging across the epistemological barrier formed by the revolution of modern science, these contributions inquire into the changing disciplinary patterns of the tumultuous times between the renaissance and the enlightenment, that saw the fragmentation of old ideals and the creation of European modernity.

Contributors: Donald R. Kelley, Ann Blair, Paul Nelles, Constance Blackwell, Ulrich Schneider, Martin Mulsow, J.B. Schneewind, Donald Verene, Peter Miller, Ann Moyers, Michael Seidler, Anthony Pagden, Paula Findlen, Anthony Grafton, Heikki Mikkeli, Nicholas Jardine, Londa Schiebinger.

About the Author

BARBARA TEPA LUPACK has written extensively on the topic of literary adaptations in cinema and is co-author (with Alan Lupack) of King Arthur in America.