Toward a Social History of Knowledge

Collected Essays

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

One of the foremost historians of intellectual life and education in Germany, Fritz Ringer has brought together in this volume several of his articles, most of which are not easily available are published here in English for the first time. They focus on a whole range of contemporary and historical debates about the relationship between ideas and their context, the role of education and middle-class consciousness, the social role of academics and intellectuals, and competing ideals of learning, science, and history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2001-02-15
Mått:140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN:9781571812315

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Fritz Ringer (1934-2006) taught at Harvard, Indiana, and Boston Universities and was Mellon Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh.

Innehållsförteckning

PART I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONSChapter 1. The Intellectual Field, Intellectual History, and the Sociology of KnowledgeChapter 2. The Origins of Karl Mannheim’s Sociology of KnowledgePART II: EDUCATION AND THE MIDDLE CLASSESChapter 3. Education, Economy, and Society in Germany, 1800–1960Chapter 4. Education and the Middle Classes in Modern FrancePART III: QUANTITATIVE STUDIESChapter 5. Patterns of Access to the Modern European UniversityChapter 6. A Sociography of German Academics, 1863–1938PART IV: ESSAYS IN COMPARATIVE INTELLECTUAL HISTORYChapter 7. Bildung and its Implications in the German Tradition, 1890–1930Chapter 8. Ideas of Education and of Systematic Knowledge: France, ca. 1900, in Comparative Perspective