Ordering Knowledge, Disciplinarity and the Shaping of European Modernity
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Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg
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Ordering Knowledge

Disciplinarity and the Shaping of European Modernity

Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg

Études anglophones

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As the world struggles to come to grips with the rise of new populisms that
call into question the legitimacy of technocratic expertise, the historical
understanding of the processes by which the characteristically modern modes of
meaning-making came into existence has never been so important. Politically-
motivated attacks on ‘science’ are difficult to counter in a climate of
generalised scepticism for all forms of authority, but cultural historians
have an important part to play by offering an adequate historical framing for
the terms of the debate. The origins of modernity are routinely associated
with the empirical attitudes of the ‘scientific revolution’ and the liberal
rationalism of the Enlightenment; but this story tends to be studied either
conceptually by historians of science, or politically by cultural historians.
For it to make sense as the backdrop to modern debates, the political and
epistemological dimensions of the emergence of modernity need to be put more
firmly into contact with one another. This book attempts to do so by focusing
on the theme of the emergence of disciplinarity in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries.
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