The creation and justification of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages gives rise to several questions: How is 'foreign' knowledge given authority? What are the mechanisms of legitimation? Are the ascriptions by the sources concerning the origin of knowledge as either inhe…
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This book examines the origins of higher learning, and then traces education exchange to the aftermath of World War II, when the United States was internationally recognized as the epicenter of critical thinking and scientific discovery. As centers of learning arose in the ancie…
"Discusses whether exiles and expatriates have made a distinctive contribution to knowledge"--Provided by the publisher
"Discusses whether exiles and expatriates have made a distinctive contribution to knowledge"--Provided by the publisher
"Discusses whether exiles and expatriates have made a distinctive contribution to knowledge"--Provided by the publisher
"Discusses whether exiles and expatriates have made a distinctive contribution to knowledge"--Provided by the publisher
"Throughout history, humans have sought ways not only to acquire but to preserve knowledge. From when to plant crops to who begat whom, even the earliest people worked to store information. Today, computers and other technologies have almost completely changed the world of infor…
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 re…