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Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories

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Editors:
  1. Loren Graham

    1. Program in Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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  2. Wolf Lepenies

    1. Institut für Soziologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

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  3. Peter Weingart

    1. Fakultät für Soziologie und Forschungsschwerpunkt Wissenschaftsforschung, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

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Part of the book series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (SOSC, volume 7)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  5. Epilogue

    1. Epilogue

      • Loren Graham, Wolf Lepenies, Peter Weingart
      Pages 291-295

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 297-307
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Edward Gibbon's allegation at the beginning of his Essay on the Study of Literature (1764) that the history of empires is that of the miseries of humankind whereas the history of the sciences is that of their splendour and happiness has for a long time been accepted by professional scientists and by historians of science alike. For its practitioner, the history of a discipline displayed above all the always difficult but fmally rewarding approach to a truth which was incorporated in the discipline in its actual fonn. Looking back, it was only too easy to distinguish those who erred and heretics in the field from the few forerunners of true science. On the one hand, the traditional history of science was told as a story of hero and hero worship, on the other hand it was, paradoxically enough, the constant attempt to remind the scientist whom he should better forget. It is not surprising at all therefore that the traditional history of science was a field of only minor interest for the practitioner of a distinct scientific diSCipline or specialty and at the same time a hardly challenging task for the professional historian. Nietzsche had already described the historian of science as someone who arrives late after harvest-time: it is somebody who is only a tolerated guest at the thanksgiving dinner of the scientific community .

Editors and Affiliations

  • Program in Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Loren Graham

  • Institut für Soziologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

    Wolf Lepenies

  • Fakultät für Soziologie und Forschungsschwerpunkt Wissenschaftsforschung, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

    Peter Weingart

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories

  • Editors: Loren Graham, Wolf Lepenies, Peter Weingart

  • Series Title: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7035-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1520-3Published: 31 July 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1521-0Published: 31 July 1983

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-7035-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0167-2320

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 308

  • Topics: Legal History

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