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- Title
Umbau des polyhistorischen Wissensraums. Johann Christoph Stockhausens Critischer Entwurf einer auserlesenen Bibliothek für den Liebhaber der Philosophie und schönen Wissenschaften (1752).
- Authors
Werle, Dirk
- Abstract
The example of Johann Christoph Stockhausen's Critischer Entwurf einer auserlesenen Bibliothek für den Liebhaber der Philosophie und schönen Wissenschaften shows how the space of learned knowledge - in the literal and metaphorical sense - is reorganized around the middle of the 18th century. The traditional polyhistorian order of knowledge gradually integrates elements of enlightened scholarship without completely giving up the old ideals. Considering the background of this process, Stockhausen is anything but a polyhistorian latecomer; on the contrary he has to be seen as a pragmatic theoretician trying to render learned knowledge sustainable in a changing world of scholarship. His outline of an ideal library, compared with its forerunners, is distinguished by a more pragmatic perspective and a virtualized concept of the library. He still operates with traditional topoi, but, at the same time, uses an innovative guiding semantics, within which the catchword 'critical' plays a central role.
- Subjects
CRITISCHER Entwurf einer auserlesenen Bibliothek fur den Liebhaber der Philosophie und schonen Wissenschaften (Book); STOCKHAUSEN, Johann Christoph; SCHOLARLY method; COLLECTION development in libraries; ENLIGHTENMENT; THEORY of knowledge; EIGHTEENTH century; INTELLECTUAL history; LIBRARIES &; scholars; HISTORY of libraries
- Publication
Berichte zur Wissenschafts-Geschichte, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
0170-6233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bewi.201101514