This book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment.
This book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment.
Cornel Zwierlein is a Professor in the Department of History at Bochum University, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. in 2003 at the University of Munich. From 2013 to 2015 he was a Fellow at Harvard University's History Department (Henkel/EU) and in 2014 was a Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Politics and economy: nationalizing economics 2. Religion: empires ignoring, learning, forgetting religions 3. History: how to cope with unconscious ignorance 4. Science: Mediterranean empires and scientific unknowns Conclusion Bibliography.
