How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making

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This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptual move: challenging both the premise of insurmountable differences between confined, autarkic cultures and the linear, nation-centered approach to the spread of immutable stocks of knowledge. Rather, the conceptual focus of the book is on the circulation, amalgamation and reconfiguration of locally shaped bodies of knowledge on a broader, global scale. The authors emphasize that  the histories of interaction have been made less transparent through the study of cultural representations thus distorting the view of how knowledge is actually produced.

Leading scholars from a range of fields, including history, philosophy, social anthropology and comparative culture research, have contributed chapters which cover the period from the early modern age to the present day and investigate settings in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Their particular focus is on areas that have largely been neglected until now. In this work, readers from many disciplines will find new approaches to writing the global history of knowledge-making, especially historians, scholars of the history and philosophy of science, and those in culture studies.

Critically examines the impact of cultural difference to reveal how knowledge is mobilized to regulate identities and to establish norms and values

Highlights the latest non-Western approaches to the understanding of the knowledge production

Addresses burning concerns in history (history and philosophy of science, technology and knowledge, global history) and culture studies

Contains original essays by leading scholars

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Johannes Feichtinger

Themen in »How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making«

Pidgin-Knowledge Knowledge Geographies Indigenous Modernities Theory of Modernization Chinese Intellectual History Similarities and Entangled Science Imperial Culture of Knowledge Mediality of Knowledge South Asian Medicinal Knowledge Knowledge Making Knowledge Moving Knowledge using Postcolonial Legacies Jewish Exiles Jewish Expatriat

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