Toward a social history of knowledge : collected essays

Author(s)

• Ringer, Fritz K.

Bibliographic Information

Toward a social history of knowledge : collected essays

[edited by] Fritz Ringer

Berghahn Books, 2000

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BA51225613
• ISBN:
  • 1571812318
• LCCN: 99045501
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 239 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BD175.T69
  • DC21 : 306.4/2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Knowledge, Sociology of