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The Globalization of Knowledge in History

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Renn, Jürgen [Hrsg.]
The Globalization of Knowledge in History / ed. by Jürgen Renn. - Berlin : epubli GmbH, 2012. - 868 S. - (Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge : Studies ; 1)
ISBN 978-3-8442-2238-8
EUR 87,19 (Printausgabe)
Als PDF-Datei erhältlich über Edition Open Access.
DDC: 001.09

Beschreibung
Today scientific, technological and cultural knowledge is shared worldwide. The extent to which globalized knowledge also existed in the past is an open question and, moreover, a question that is important for understanding present processes of globalization. This book, the first volume of the series "Studies" of the "Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge," is the result of an interdisciplinary cooperation launched in 2007 by a Dahlem Conference, offers surprising answers to this question.
   Long-distance and intercontinental connections with an attendant spread of knowledge are as old as Homo sapiens themselves. Since its inception, the globalization of knowledge has been a process with its own dynamics, interfering significantly with other processes of intercultural transmission. The four parts of this volume address historical phases in which the production, transmission and transformation of knowledge were crucial for advancing these processes. Part 1 investigates a series of processes in the very early phases of globalization, from the transmission of practical knowledge to the emergence of science. Part 2 explores how knowledge was disseminated as a consequence of the spread of power and belief structures. Part 3 deals with the encounters between culturally specific knowledge and globalized knowledge. Part 4 is dedicated to the globalization of modern science and to the great challenges, such as energy supply and climate change, that humanity faces when dealing with knowledge today. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Jürgen Renn:
Preface
About the Contributions
About the Contributors
1. Jürgen Renn and Malcolm D. Hyman:
The Globalization of Knowledge in History: An Introduction
2. Helge Wendt and Jürgen Renn:
Knowledge and Science in Current Discussions of Globalization
3. Malcolm D. Hyman and Jürgen Renn:
Survey: From Technology Transfer to the Origins of Science
4. Daniel T. Potts:
Technological Transfer and Innovation in Ancient Eurasia
5. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum:
Writing, Language and Textuality: Conditions for the Transmission of Knowledge in the Ancient Near East
6. Peter Damerow:
The Origins of Writing and Arithmetic
7. Gerd Graßhoff:
Globalization of Ancient Knowledge: From Babylonian Observations to Scientific Regularities
8. Mark Schiefsky:
The Creation of Second-Order Knowledge in Ancient Greek Science as a Process in the Globalization of Knowledge
9. Jürgen Renn:
Survey: Knowledge as a Fellow Traveler
10. Jens Braarvig:
The Spread of Buddhism as Globalization of Knowledge
11. Matthias Schemmel:
The Transmission of Scientific Knowledge from Europe to China in the Early Modern Period
12. Birgit Krawietz:
Normative Islam and Global Scientific Knowledge
13. Gotthard Strohmaier:
From Khwarazm to Cordoba: The Propagation of Non-Religious Knowledge in the Islamic Empire
14. Manolis Patiniotis and Kostas Gavroglu:
The Sciences in Europe: Transmitting Centers and the Appropriating Peripheries
15. Dhruv Raina:
The Naturalization of Modern Science in South Asia: A Historical Overview of the Processes of Domestication and Globalization
16. Jürgen Renn:
Survey: The Place of Local Knowledge in the Global Community
17. Denise Gimpel:
Taking China to the World, Taking the World to China: Chen Hengzhe and an Early Globalizing Project
18. Oscar Abdounur and Adriana Cesar de Mattos:
The Introduction of the European University System in Brazil
19. Jarita C. Holbrook:
Celestial Navigation and Technological Change on Moce Island
20. Arie Krampf:
Translation of Central Banking to Developing Countries in the Post-World War II Period: The Case of the Bank of Israel
21. Richard Rottenburg:
On Juridico-Political Foundations of Meta-Codes
22. Hansjörg Dilger:
The (Ir)Relevance of Local Knowledge: Circuits of Medicine and Biopower in the Neoliberal Era
23. Mary Silva da Silva and Ligia Arantes Sad:
The Transformations of Knowledge Through Cultural Interactions in Brazil: The Case of the Tupinikim and the Guarani Circe
24. Jürgen Renn and Malcolm D. Hyman:
Survey: The Globalization of Modern Science
25. Yehuda Elkana:
The University of the 21st Century: An Aspect of Globalization
26. Ludmila Hyman:
The Soviet Psychologists and the Path to International Psychology
27. Angelo Baracca:
The Global Diffusion of Nuclear Technology
28. Hans Falk Hoffmann:
The Role of Open and Global Communication in Particle Physics
29. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger:
Internationalism and the History of Molecular Biology
30. Robert Schlögl:
The Role of Chemistry in the Global Energy Challenge
31. Daniel Klingenfeld and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber:
Climate Change as a Global Challenge – and its Implications for Knowledge Generation and Dissemination
32. Malcolm D. Hyman and Jürgen Renn:
Toward an Epistemic Web

Herausgeber
Jürgen Renn is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Honorary Professor for the History of Science at the Humboldt-University Berlin, Honorary Professor for Physics at the Free University Berlin, Adjunct Professor for Philosophy and Physics at Boston University. His research focuses on the history of early modern mechanics, the history of relativity theory, and the interaction between cognitive and contextual factors in the history of science. Profile page.

Quellen: epubli GmbH; Edition Open Access; Deutsche Nationalbibliothek


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