A Social History of Knowledge II : From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia Naguib MAHFOUZ translated by William MAynard Hutchins and Olive E Kenny and future of search

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metaphysics and knowledge

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A Social History of Knowledge II : From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia Naguib MAHFOUZ translated by William MAynard Hutchins and Olive E Kenny and future of searchPeter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge , picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopdie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups, institutions, collective practices and general trends. The book is divided into