Genealogy of Popular Science

From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4835-5
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, 586 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1002 g

Reihe: History of science and technology

Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along with its continuities, disruptions, and transformations.

This volume fills this research gap with a genealogically reflected introduction into the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. The category 'popular science' is elucidated in interdisciplinary and diachronic dialogue, discussing case studies from all historical periods.

Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide the first diachronic and multi-layered approach to the rhetoric techniques, aesthetics, and societal conditions that have shaped the dissemination and reception of scientific knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muñoz Morcillo, Jesús

Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y.

Mun~oz Morcillo, Jesu´s

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Muñoz Morcillo, Jesús
Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, geb. 1977, ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am ZAK Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). Der Altphilologe und Kunstwissenschaftler promovierte 2015 bei Prof. Dr. Beat Wyss an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaftsforschung.

Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, classicist (PhD) and art historian (PhD), is research fellow at the ZAK Centre for Cultural and General Studies and the Institute of Art and Architecture History (IKB) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha,
sociologist (PhD), is founding director of the ZAK Centre for Cultural and General Studies at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), coordinator of the German network of the Anna Lindh Foundation, member of the Culture Committee of the German UNESCO Commission, and chairlady of the Academic Council for Culture and Foreign Policy (WIKA) at the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa).