Book
Disciplines in the making : cross-cultural perspectives on elites, learning, and innovation
Record details
- ISBN: 0199567875
- ISBN: 9780199567874
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Physical Description:
viii, 215 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
print - Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-203) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- What is philosophy? -- Mathematics -- History -- Medicine -- Art -- Law -- Religion -- Science -- Conclusion: Discipline and interdisciplinarity. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Learning and scholarship -- Cross-cultural studies Universities and colleges -- Curricula -- Cross-cultural studies Elite (Social sciences) -- Attitudes -- Cross-cultural studies |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at College of the Rockies.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Cranbrook Campus | AZ 105 .L49 2009 (Text) | 31111000011856 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |
More information
- Choice Reviews : Choice Reviews 2010 June
As Lloyd (emer., Univ. of Cambridge) notes, many people have spent time teaching and researching in institutions where discipline-based borders are used to individuate different areas of knowledge, while pressure continues to find areas of common interests and intersections of expertise. This accessible book traces the origins (ancient Greece, China, India) and contemporary constitutions of eight disciplines: philosophy, law, health, science, mathematics, history, religion, and art. Lloyd asks three questions about each discipline. What is the narrow and broad domain of each practice, in which sometimes-vague minimal conditions specify broad domains and where narrow sometimes refers to contemporary conditions of a domain in society? Who are the intellectual elite in charge of creating standards and borders that give these people a special status in conserving traditional practices or opening new possibilities? What can be innovative in each discipline? Underlying these questions is the ancient "one and many" controversy--whether a discipline has a universal constitution or is identified by shifting, relative, and changing realities. Lloyd concludes that narrow-mindedness can be overcome only by a plurality of alternative conceptions, boundaries, and intersections between disciplines. He supports this openness with arguments based on cultural and historical precedents identifying changing disciplines. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. Copyright 2010 American Library Association.
