Donald R Kelley

History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Donald R Kelley

Publisher Marketing: This collection of essays addresses, in specific historical ways and from particular disciplinary standpoints, the problem of knowledge and what used to be called the classification of the sciences. What is, or what passes for, knowledge? What are its divisions, and how should they be related? Who possesses this knowledge, and to what uses has it been put? How is it transmitted, and how can its history be understood and written? Ranging across the epistemological barrier formed by the revolution of modern science, these contributions inquire into the changing disciplinary patterns of the tumultuous times between the renaissance and the enlightenment, that saw the fragmentation of old ideals and the creation of European modernity. Contributors: Donald R. Kelley, Ann Blair, Paul Nelles, Constance Blackwell, Ulrich Schneider, Martin Mulsow, J. B. Schneewind, Donald Verene, Peter Miller, Ann Moyers, Michael Seidler, Anthony Pagden, Paula Findlen, Anthony Grafton, Heikki Mikkeli, Nicholas Jardine, Londa Schiebinger.

Contributor Bio:  Kelley, Donald R Kelley is the director of the Fulbright Institute of International Relations and professor of comparative politics at the University of Arkansas. Contributor Bio:  Mikkeli, Heikki Junior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland. Contributor Bio:  Jardine, Nicholas University of CambridgeContributor Bio:  Grafton, Anthony Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. Contributor Bio:  Findlen, Paula Paula Findlen is Professor of History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at Stanford UniversityContributor Bio:  Schneewind, J B Schneewind is Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Contributor Bio:  Schiebinger, Londa Londa Schiebinger is John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. Contributor Bio:  Miller, Peter Miller serves as convener of the Department of Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Contributor Bio:  Verene, Donald Phillip Verene is Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University. He was Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1988 and holds a doctorate of Humane Letters, honoris causa from Knox College.