Knowledge and its Resources: Concepts, Methods, Historiographies - Detailseite

The thriving field of history of knowledge has developed multiple strands across many historical disciplines in recent decades, but has yet to be underpinned by a rigorous methodological training. The Seminar’s program addresses this critical gap. Through the notion of “resources,” it offers a framework to bring the divergent historiographies of knowledge into structured dialogue, thus opening up new avenues of understanding and research. Key to the Seminar is a “historical-political epistemology,” an approach highlighting the ways in which knowledge is shaped historically and in which political systems, technological infrastructures, and social interaction shape the resource economics of knowledge cultures.

This Seminar will be taught together with Christina von Oertzen (HU) and Cale Johnson (FU) within the program of the International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and its Resources”. Please note that the reading load will be very high; we expect students to apply with a short description of their motivation for this Seminar; there will be a strict maximum number of students.

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