Toward a Social History of Knowledge

Collected Essays
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-57181-231-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ringer, Fritz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ringer, Fritz
Fritz Ringer (1934-2006) taught at Harvard, Indiana, and Boston Universities and was Mellon Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh.