Article ID: CBB931053546

The History of Knowledge and the Future of Knowledge Societies (2019)

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The new field of the history of knowledge is often presented as a mere expansion of the history of science. We argue that it has a greater ambition. The re-definition of the historiographical domain of the history of knowledge urges us to ask new questions about the boundaries, hierarchies, and mutual constitution of different types of knowledge as well as the role and assessment of failure and ignorance in making knowledge. These issues have pertinence in the current climate where expertise is increasingly questioned and authority seems to lose its ground. Illustrated with examples from recent historiography of the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, we indicate some fruitful new avenues for research in the history of knowledge. Taken together, we hope that they will show that the history of knowledge could build the expertise required by the challenges of twenty-first century knowledge societies, just like the history of science, throughout its development as a discipline in the twentieth century, responded to the demands posed by science and society.

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Article Christian Joas; Fabian Krämer; Kärin Nickelsen (2019) Introduction: History of Science or History of Knowledge?. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 117-125). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Generali, Dario
Butler, Christina Rae
Claudia Pancino
Kharlamova, Vera I.
Ertsen, Maurits Willem
Staley, Richard A.
Concepts
Historiography
History of science, as a discipline
Science and society
Historical method
Science and religion
Philosophy of science
Time Periods
20th century
18th century
19th century
17th century
21st century
16th century
Places
Europe
Italy
Great Britain
South Carolina (U.S.)
Argentina
Portugal
Institutions
School of Milan
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