The polymath : a cultural history from Leonardo Da Vinci to Susan Sontag /

From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burke, Peter, 1937- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Intellectuals > History.
Learning and scholarship > History.
Knowledge, Theory of > History.
Intellectuels > Histoire.
Savoir et érudition > Histoire.
Théorie de la connaissance > Histoire.
HISTORY > Social History.
Intellectuals.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Learning and scholarship.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : What is a polymath?
  • 1. East and West
  • 2. The age of the "Renaissance man", 1400-1600
  • 3. The age of the "monsters of erudition", 1600-1700
  • 4. The age of the "man of letters", 1700-1850
  • 5. The age of territoriality, 1850-2000
  • 6. A group portrait
  • 7. Habitats
  • 8. The age of interdisciplinarity
  • Coda : Towards a third crisis.

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