Scholars in action
Subtitle: the practice of knowledge and the figure of the savant in the 18th century
By: edited by Andre Holenstein, Hubert Steinke, and Martin Stuber ; in collaboration with Philippe Rogger
Series: History of science and medicine library -- volume 34; Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions -- volume 9
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 972
ISBN-13: 9789004243903; 9789004243910
Subjects: Learning and scholarship; History; Scholars; Theory of Knowledge; Intellectual life
Description: In Scholars in Action, an international group of 40 authors open up new perspectives on the eighteenth-century culture of knowledge, with a particular focus on scholars and their various practices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.