Ordering Knowledge
Disciplinarity and the Shaping of European Modernity
As the world struggles to come to grips with the rise of new populisms that call into question the legitimacy of technocratic expertise, the historical understanding of the processes by which the characteristically modern modes of meaning-making came into existence has never been so important. Politically-motivated attacks on ‘science’ are difficult to counter in a climate of generalised scepticism for all forms of authority, but cultural historians have an important part to play by offering a...
Note de l’éditeur
Ouvrage publié avec le soutien de l’Université de Strasbourg, de l’unité de recherche IDEA, Interdisciplinarité dans les études anglophones (UR 2338) et de l’unité de recherche SEARCH, Savoirs dans l’espace anglophone : représentations, culture, histoire (UR 2325)
Éditeur : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg
Lieu d’édition : Strasbourg
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 3 mai 2023
ISBN numérique : 979-10-344-0361-5
DOI : 10.4000/books.pus.32660
Collection : Études anglophones
Année d’édition : 2023
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 979-10-344-0133-8
Nombre de pages : 344
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Richard Somerset
IntroductionPart 1. Conceiving Disciplinarity: Modernising Projects of Knowledge
Mickaël Popelard
Bacon’s Literary Quest for Scientific Knowledge in Gesta Grayorum (1594) and New Atlantis (1627)Sorana Corneanu
Science, Poetry and Imagination: Disciplinary Negotiations in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Writings on GeniusRichard Somerset
Navigating the Labyrinth of Knowledge: ‘Distantiation’ and Narrative Experiments in the Structuring of Encyclopaedic KnowledgePart 2. Shaping Disciplinarity: Emergent Fields of Practice and Expression
Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde
Parisian Surgeons of the Seventeenth Century and the Disciplinary Emergence of Modern MedicineMarieke M. A. Hendriksen
Production and Exchange of Knowledge around 1800: the Example of Anatomical Models in Edinburgh and PhiladelphiaDaria Novgorodova
The Constitution and Evolution of the First Russian Mineralogical Collection: The Mineral Cabinet of St. Petersburg’s KunstkameraLaurence Talairach
Instructive books for children in Georgian EnglandAs the world struggles to come to grips with the rise of new populisms that call into question the legitimacy of technocratic expertise, the historical understanding of the processes by which the characteristically modern modes of meaning-making came into existence has never been so important. Politically-motivated attacks on ‘science’ are difficult to counter in a climate of generalised scepticism for all forms of authority, but cultural historians have an important part to play by offering an adequate historical framing for the terms of the debate. The origins of modernity are routinely associated with the empirical attitudes of the ‘scientific revolution’ and the liberal rationalism of the Enlightenment; but this story tends to be studied either conceptually by historians of science, or politically by cultural historians. For it to make sense as the backdrop to modern debates, the political and epistemological dimensions of the emergence of modernity need to be put more firmly into contact with one another. This book attempts to do so by focusing on the theme of the emergence of disciplinarity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Jean-Jacques Chardin is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Strasbourg. He is a member of the SEARCH research group and is a specialist in early modern English literature and emblems.
Sorana Corneanu is Associate Professor of English and researcher in early modern studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her teaching and research focus on the intellectual history of the early modern period, with special interest in the articulations of literary, philosophical, religious and scientific thought.
Richard Somerset is a lecturer at the University of Lorraine. He is primarily interested in the concept of historicity in the nineteenth century as manifested in the fields of natural science, historiography and literature. This interdisciplinary work naturally led to an engagement with the history of disciplines and disciplinarity, starting with a co-edited collection of essays, Mapping Fields of Study: the Cultural and Institutional Space of English Studies, (Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2019).
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