History and the disciplines
Subtitle: the reclassification of knowledge in early modern Europe
By: edited by Donald R. Kelley.
Contributors: Kelley, Donald R., 1931-
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.; Historiography.; Knowledge, Theory of.; Europe -- Civilization -- Philosophy.; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Description: 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? 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.