Description: What Is the History of Knowledge?, Paperback by Burke, Peter, ISBN 0745669840, ISBN-13 9780745669847, Brand New, Free shipping in the US What is the history of knowledge? 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. 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. He discusses some of the main concepts used by scholars working in the field, among them 'order of knowledge’, 'situated knowledge’ and 'knowledge society’. 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 finally its employment for different purposes, by governments, corporations or private individuals. A concluding chapter identifies central problems in the history of knowledge, from triumphalism to relativism, together with attempts to solve them. The only book of its kind yet to be published, What is the History of Knowledge? will be essential reading for all students of history and the humanities in general, as well as the interested general reader.
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Book Title: What Is the History of Knowledge?
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Name: What Is the History of Knowledge?
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Historiography, Sociology / General
Item Weight: 3.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Peter Burke
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: What Is History? Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
