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Loading... A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderotby Peter Burke
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. “Conhecimento” e ”informação” atualmente são termos indissociáveis das denominações para a economia, a sociedade e a era em que vivemos. O conhecimento tornou-se ainda uma questão política de importância, centrada no caráter público ou privado da informação, e de sua natureza mercantil ou social. Mas apesar de a grande expansão de meios disseminadores de conhecimento ser a marca dos tempos atuais, a mercantilização da informação não é uma exclusividade de nossa época. No século XVII, por exemplo, era comum ensinar por dinheiro nas escolas e universidades ou em palestras públicas, e durante a Revolução Científica, a propriedade intelectual das descobertas gerava ásperas disputas. Nesse novo livro, Peter Burke acompanha a história do conhecimento, a evolução nas formas de sua distribuição e disseminação, o controle pela Igreja e pelo Estado, sua comercialização e a organização de centros de conhecimento, analisando ainda estudos de sociologia do conhecimento, que começaram a tomar forma no início do século XX. O livro é baseado em consultas aos primeiros textos da Idade Moderna feitas ao longo de quarenta anos e fruto de conferências e seminários apresentados pelo historiador em países da Europa, Ásia e América do Sul. no reviews | add a review
In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie. The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions (especially universities and academies) which encouraged or discouraged intellectual innovation. Then, in a series of separate chapters, Burke explores the geography, anthropology, politics and economics of knowledge, focusing on the role of cities, academies, states and markets in the process of gathering, classifying, spreading and sometimes concealing information. The final chapters deal with knowledge from the point of view of the individual reader, listener, viewer or consumer, including the problem of the reliability of knowledge discussed so vigorously in the seventeenth century. One of the most original features of this book is its discussion of knowledges in the plural. It centres on printed knowledge, especially academic knowledge, but it treats the history of the knowledge 'explosion' which followed the invention of printing and the discovery of the world beyond Europe as a process of exchange or negotiation between different knowledges, such as male and female, theoretical and practical, high-status and low-status, and European and non-European. Although written primarily as a contribution to social or socio-cultural history, this book will also be of interest to historians of science, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers and others in another age of information explosion. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.420903Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Specific aspects of culture Sociology of knowledge, of intellectual life, of informationLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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