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Nommer les savoirs

Edited by Wolf Feuerhahn
Nommer les savoirs
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16 x 24 cm - 356 pages
ISBN 979-10-351-0593-8

The names of knowledge areas are often treated as unproblematic. Yet scholars treat them as important, even when they have not invented, but only borrowed, the names they apply to new research areas. Examining the distribution and naming of  knowledge enables research into the origin of certain terms, how they gained recognition, how their meanings changed imperceptibly, and what conflicts are endemic to them. Naming and grouping knowledge is inseparable from limiting, dividing and distinguishing it. When analysing different qualifications of 'Geography' in 19th-20th- century France, we discover a much less unified history than most French standard representations allow. The case studies cited, which are often transnational, show that a single term such as 'inquiry', 'ethnopsychiatry' or the twin terms 'philology / linguistics' are appropriated in varied ways. In dwelling on the 'behavioural sciences', 'moral sciences', Geisteswissenschaften and sciences humaines [humanities], we explore the very subject-matter of the Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines.

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