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The History of Knowledge and the Future of Knowledge Societies
Copyright policy )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.
Microsoft Academic Graph classification: Environmental ethics Constitution media_common.quotation_subject media_common Descriptive knowledge Ignorance History Field (Bourdieu) Historiography History of science History of knowledge
artisanal knowledge, history of knowledge, history of science, learned societies, SCIENCE, artisanal knowledge, history of knowledge, history of science, learned societies, History and Philosophy of Science, History
artisanal knowledge, history of knowledge, history of science, learned societies, SCIENCE, artisanal knowledge, history of knowledge, history of science, learned societies, History and Philosophy of Science, History
Microsoft Academic Graph classification: Environmental ethics Constitution media_common.quotation_subject media_common Descriptive knowledge Ignorance History Field (Bourdieu) Historiography History of science History of knowledge
- Utrecht University Netherlands
- Maastricht University Netherlands
- Utrecht University Netherlands
- Maastricht University Netherlands
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.