Toward a Social History of Knowledge
Collected Essays
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2001
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-57181-231-5 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Herndon
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Library binding
Illustrations
Index; Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57181-231-5 (9781571812315)
DOI
10.3167/9781571812315
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Person
Fritz Ringer (1934-2006) taught at Harvard, Indiana, and Boston Universities and was Mellon Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh.
Content
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
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