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- Title
How Much Knowledge is Worth Knowing? An American Intellectual Historian's Thoughts on the Geschichte des Wissens.
- Authors
Marchand, Suzanne
- Abstract
This essay investigates the origins and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the new field known as Wissensgeschichte from the perspective of an American intellectual historian. It argues that while some historians of science may be ready to embrace a new identity as historians of knowledge, this terminology remains baggy and invites facile applications of Foucauldian theory. The essay concludes with the hope that the history of knowledge approach may instead open up new avenues for conversation and collaboration between historians of science and garden variety historians.
- Subjects
HISTORIANS; HISTORY of science; SCIENCE education; TECHNOLOGY; INTELLECTUALS
- Publication
Berichte zur Wissenschafts-Geschichte, 2020, Vol 42, Issue 3, p126
- ISSN
0170-6233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bewi.201900005