Springer How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making: Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Difference: 53 (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 53)

This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptual move: challenging both the premise of insurmountable differences between confined, autarkic cultures and the linear, nation-centered approach to the spread of immutable stocks of knowledge. Rather, the conceptual focus of the book is on the circulation, amalgamation and reconfiguration of locally shaped bodies of knowledge on a broader, global scale. The authors emphasize that  the histories of interaction have been made less transparent through the study of cultural representations thus distorting the view of how knowledge is actually produced. Leading scholars from a range of fields, including history, philosophy, social anthropology and comparative culture research, have contributed chapters which cover the period from the early modern age to the present day and investigate settings in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Their particular focus is on areas that have largely been neglected until now. In this work, readers from many disciplines will find new approaches to writing the global history of knowledge-making, especially historians, scholars of the history and philosophy of science, and those in culture studies. From the Back Cover This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptual move: challenging both the premise of insurmountable differences between confined, autarkic cultures and the linear, nation-centered approach to the spread of immutable stocks of knowledge. Rather, the conceptual focus of the book is on the circulation, amalgamation and reconfiguration of locally shaped bodies of knowledge on a broader, global scale. The authors emphasize that  the histories of interaction have been made less transparent through the study of cultural representations thus distorting the view of how knowledge is actually produced. Leading scholars from a range of fields, including history, philosophy, social anthropology and comparative culture research, have contributed chapters which cover the period from the early modern age to the present day and investigate settings in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Their particular focus is on areas that have largely been neglected until now. In this work, readers from many disciplines will find new approaches to writing the global history of knowledge-making, especially historians, scholars of the history and philosophy of science, and those in culture studies. About the Author 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-indisc