Breaking The Disciplines: Reconceptions in Knowledge, Art and Culture
Martin L Davies, Marsha Meskimmon (editors)
International scholars explore the ways in which knowledge actually operates, showing the limitations of now outmoded disciplines. Coming from fields as diverse as anthropology, philosophy, literature, aesthetics and art practice, together they break down the boundaries between entrenched domains of knowledge. Studies of objects which confound traditional definitions - including a mechanical cow invented by an Irish farmer, and the curious case of a mechanical monk - show how a close look at an individual object can, paradoxically, open up dynamic new "reconceptions" of traditional systems of knowledge. With social uses of knowledge currently a matter of public debate, this should be a timely text.
Рік:
2003
Видавництво:
I.B.Tauris
Мова:
english
ISBN 10:
0755626249
ISBN 13:
9780755626243
Файл:
PDF, 2.03 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2003