Ordering knowledge

Disciplinarity and the shaping of european modernity

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This collection of essays offers a historical backdrop to the current crisis of expertise by focusing on the analogous debates accompanying the first emergence of the disciplinary organisation of knowledge in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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.

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Introduction - Richard Somerset

Part 1. Conceiving Disciplinarity: Modernising Projects of Knowledge

1. Bacon’s Literary Quest for Scientific Knowledge in Gesta Grayorum (1594) and New Atlantis (1627)

Mickaël Popelard

2. Science, Poetry and Imagination: Disciplinary Negotiations in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Writings on Genius

Sorana Corneanu

3. ‘The Whole Set to View’: Orders of Knowledge in Chambers’ Cyclopaedia

Seth Rudy

4. Navigating the Labyrinth of Knowledge: ‘Distantiation’ and Narrative Experiments in the Structuring of Encyclopaedic Knowledge

Richard Somerset

5.‘Things not Words’: The Dissenting Academies and Paradigm Shifts in the Ordering, Definition and Production of Knowledge, 1662-1783

Matthew Smith

Part 2. Shaping Disciplinarity: Emergent Fields of Practice and Expression

6. The Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris and the Birth of Historical Epistemology

Susana Seguin

7. Parisian Surgeons of the Seventeenth Century and the Disciplinary Emergence of Modern Medicine

Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde

8. Production and Exchange of Knowledge around 1800: the Example of Anatomical Models in Edinburgh and Philadelphia

Marieke Hendriksen

9. The Constitution and Evolution of the First Russian Mineralogical Collection: The Mineral Cabinet in St. Petersburg’s Kunstkamera

Daria Novgorodova

10. Instructive Books for Children in Georgian England

Laurence Talairach

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	PAPIER	NUMERIQUE
Éditeur(s)	Presses universitaires de Strasbourg
Collection	Etudes anglopho
Parution	03/05/2023	03/05/2023
Nb. de pages	350	-
Format	16.4 x 24.1	-
Couverture	Broché	-
Poids	627g	-
Contenu	-	ePub + PDF + Mobi/Kindle
EAN13	9791034401338	9791034403615