Ordering Knowledge
Disciplinarity and the Shaping of European Modernity
Études anglophonesÉditeur : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg
Lieu d’édition : Strasbourg
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 3 mai 2023
Collection : Études anglophones
Année d’édition : 2023
Nombre de pages : 344
Présentation
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 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.
Sommaire
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
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