Revisiting “Shaping Information History as an Intellectual Discipline” / Shaping Information History as an Intellectual Discipline

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Cortada
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Discipline ◽  
Information History

Periodical press and port cities: Creation of knowledge, representations and networks1

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Cátia Miriam Costa ◽  
Olívia Pestana
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Knowledge Representations ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Intellectual Production ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Information History

Port cities constituted dynamic axes of national territories and stood out for their opening to the outside world for the transaction of goods, the reception of the new and the exchange of ideas. They were also free spaces for new technological experiences and the foundation of modern economic, scientific, social and political projects. They stood out as privileged territories for the establishment of networks of knowledge and through these networks maintained the contact with distant lands. Intellectual production in them is remarkable and the periodical press, providing general or specialized information, as an information industry at the service of new political, scientific and economic projects, finds space for its development within the port cities. This Special Section brings together researchers working on these subjects, allowing a multidisciplinary approach involving scholars from such scientific areas as communication, information, history, literature and international relations. The objective is to analyse the relationship between the periodic press and port cities and how these urban spaces fostered public opinion and debate projects, as well as new specialized information.

Four Controversies over the Religious Nature of Confucianism

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Sun
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Religion ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries ◽  
Intellectual Discipline ◽  
Religious Nature

This chapter presents the four major controversies in the past five centuries regarding the nature of Confucianism as a religion. The first is the Chinese Rites and Term Controversy, which involved Jesuit missionaries in China. The second is the so-called Term Controversy, which involved missionaries in China as well as scholars in the newly emerging intellectual discipline, “comparative religion.” The third is the Confucianity Movement (kongjiao yundong), which was a failed movement to make Confucianity into China's state religion. The fourth is the latest debate over the religious nature of Confucianism, the so-called Confucianism as a Religion Controversy, which took place in China between 2000 and 2004.

Trials and Tribulations of Clio

After Hegel ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick C. Beiser
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual Discipline

The nineteenth century is often dubbed “the age of history.” One reason is because history, as an intellectual discipline, became a science in its own right. For mysterious reasons, yet to be explained, demonstrability, universality, and necessary were no longer regarded as prerequisites of knowledge. Somehow, even historical propositions about particular and contingent matters of fact could be scientific. How do we explain this revolution? Social and historical forces alone are not sufficient to give history its intellectual or philosophical legitimation. They give a powerful motive for such legitimation; but they alone do not provide it. That philosophical side of the story is much more complex, involving many interweaving narratives. This chapter tells but one of them, the simplest and most basic. It describes Clio's struggle for autonomy in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Microparasitism, Macroparasitism, and the Urban Transmutation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Geological Structures ◽  
Historical Landscape ◽  
Narrow Space ◽  
Intellectual Discipline ◽  
Ordinary Teaching

ALTHOUGH IT IS absurd to try to distill the human adventure on earth into the narrow space of two lectures, I propose to do just that. The absurd, after all, pushes us beyond the borders of ordinary discourse; and any intellectual discipline—not least history—needs every so often to examine the framework of understanding within which detailed researches and ordinary teaching are conducted. By trying to look at all of the human past in an exceedingly narrow compass, we will be forced to think about the really major landmarks—to consider, so to speak, the geological structures underlying details of the historical landscape. Even if my notions fail to persuade you, still this adventure into rash generalization may make you more conscious of how small-scale historical knowledge fits into, and derives part of its meaning from, the overall picture we have inherited from our forerunners....

4. The modern world

2018 ◽  
pp. 56-84
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Intellectual Discipline

Although we can view sociology as a disinterested intellectual discipline that stands aside from the world it observes, sociology is itself a symptom of the very things it describes. ‘The modern world’ summarizes what sociology sees as distinctive about the social formations that concern it, considering modernity, social order, social mobility, and postmodernity. The key sociological proposition that much of our world is inadvertent and unintended is important, not just for understanding why things do not go as planned, but also for understanding why things are as they are. This has serious policy implications, because if we misunderstand the causes of what concerns us, we misdirect our efforts to change it.

Information history

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 441-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Black
Keyword(s):  
Information History
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