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

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Science and society Sociology of knowledge Expertise Historical method Discipline formation Historiography History of science, as a discipline History of knowledge 21st century 20th century 19th century 18th century 17th century 16th century

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
Eva Ruffing
Eyal, Gil
Barlösius, Eva
Claudia Pancino
Kharlamova, Vera I.
Journals
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Spontaneous Generations
Science and Education
Historical Journal
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Publishers
Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino
University of Pittsburgh Press
Mimesis
Macmillan Reference
Franco Angeli
Classiques Garnier
Concepts
Historiography
History of science, as a discipline
Science and society
Historical method
Science and religion
Science and politics
People
Redi, Francesco
Malpighi, Marcello
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Galilei, Galileo
Time Periods
20th century
18th century
19th century
17th century
21st century
16th century
Places
Europe
Italy
Great Britain
Portugal
Germany
France
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