How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making (eBook, PDF)

Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Difference
Redaktion: Feichtinger, Johannes; Hülmbauer, Cornelia; Bhatti, Anil

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Produktbeschreibung

Critically examines the impact of cultural difference to reveal how knowledge is mobilized to regulate identities and to establish norms and values Highlights the latest non-Western approaches to the understanding of the knowledge production Addresses burning concerns in history (history and philosophy of science, technology and knowledge, global history) and culture studies Contains original essays by leading scholars

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030379223
• Artikelnr.: 58751083

Autorenporträt

Johannes Feichtinger is a Senior Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and teaches history at the University of Vienna. He specializes in the history and philosophy of science, history of knowledge and culture studies. His publications include two monographs: Wissenschaft als reflexives Projekt. Von Bolzano über Freud zu Kelsen. Österreichische Wissenschaftsgeschichte 1848-1938 (2010), and Wissenschaft zwischen den Kulturen. Österreichische Hochschullehrer in der Emigration 1933-1945 (2001), numerous co-edited volumes, among them Habsburg Postcolonial (2003), Deploying Orientalism in Culture and History. From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe (2013), and Understanding Multiculturalism. The Habsburg Central European Experience (2014). Anil Bhatti is Professor Emeritus at the JNU New Delhi. He specializes in the theory of literature and culture theory, modern German and comparative literature and comparative culture studies between Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and India/Asia, orientalism and postcolonial studies. His main publications include coedited volumes on Kulturelle Identität. Deutsch-indische Kulturkontakte in Literatur, Religion und Politik  (1997), Reisen, Entdeckungen, Utopien (1998), Jewish Exile in India  (1999), and the recently published Similarity. A Paradigm for Culture Theory (2018, in German 2015). He has published a large number of articles focusing on Language, Homogeneities, Heterogeneities and Similarity, and he holds numerous international fellowships, awards and honors, including the Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Cornelia Hülmbauer was a Junior Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2013 to 2018. She obtained a PhD from the University of Vienna with a dissertation on English as a Lingua Franca in European multilingualism. Specializing in lingua-cultural diversity and translingual practices, philosophy of language and culture studies, she worked as a researcher for the European FP6 project DYLAN - Language Dynamics and Management of Diversity as well as for the international network project  Toolkit for Transnational Communication. She was co-editor of the volume  Mehrsprachigkeit aus der Perspektive zweier EU-Projekte: DYLAN meets LINEE  (2010) and has published various articles in international journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. "Introduction: Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Differences in the History of Knowledge-Making" (Johannes Feichtinger).- Part 1. Knowledge Production beyond the Logic of Cultural Difference.- 2. The Role of Exiles in the History of Knowledge: Two Cases (Peter Burke).- 3. "Interactive Knowledge-Making: How and Why Nineteenth-Century Austrian Scientific Travelers in Asia and Africa Overcame Cultural Differences" (Johannes Feichtinger).- Part 2. Mobilizations of Knowledge Reconsidered.- 4. "How Romance Studies Shaped the Ukrainian Language and How the Ukrainian-Romanian Conflict Helped to Create Ladinian: A (Very) Entangled History of A-Political Science" (Jan Surman).- 5. "A Spiritual Unity of Europe and the Yugoslav Politics of Knowledge in the Interwar Period: A Philosophical Enhancement of the 'Slavic Spirit'" (Dragan Prole).- Part 3. Shifting Positions of and for Knowledge Production.- 6. "A History of Circulation vs. an 'Episodic' History of Mathematics in South Asia: Titrating the Historiography and Social Theory of Science and Mathematics" (Dhruv Raina).- 7. "Shaping Newtonianism: The Intersection of Knowledge Claims in Eighteenth-Century Greek Intellectual Life" (Manolis Patiniotis).- Part 4. Writing a Shared History of Knowledge Production.- 8. "Queer Diasporic Practice of a Muslim Traveler: Syed Mujtaba Ali's Chacha Kahini" (Kris Manjapra).- 9. "Shared Village Stories: How (Not) to Disentangle Literary Historiography from 'Modernization'" (Marcus Twellmann).- 10. "Can Black Folk Dream-in Theory? Psychoanalysis and Coloniality-Anamnesis of a Failed Encounter" (Ulrike Kistner).- 11. "Positivist Worldmakers: John Stuart Mill's and Auguste Comte's Rival Universalisms at the Zenith of Empire" (Franz L. Fillafer).