Historia social del conocimiento

In this book, Peter Burke adopts a sociocultural approach to analyse the changes that have taken place in the organisation of knowledge in Europe since the invention of the printing press until the publication of the French Encyclopédie. The book begins with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge, from Mannheim to Foucault and even later authors, and then moves on to discuss the issue of intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions—especially universities and academies—that promoted or hindered intellectual innovation. Burke then investigates aspects such as the geography, anthropology, politics and economics of knowledge over several chapters, highlighting the role of certain cities, academies, states and markets in the process of compiling, classifying, disseminating and sometimes eliminating information. 

ISBN: 9788408176541