How Does Paper Mean?
| Autor: | Asheesh Kapur Siddique |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Literature History Sociology and Political Science business.industry 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies 06 humanities and the arts Intellectual history 060104 history Philosophy 0508 media and communications 0601 history and archaeology History of the book business |
| Zdroj: | Modern Intellectual History. 18:888-896 |
| ISSN: | 1479-2451 1479-2443 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s147924432000030x |
| Popis: | At a 2004 conference at Princeton University, the leading practitioners of two influential approaches to studying the history of texts—the “history of the book” and “intellectual” history—compared the underpinnings of their respective methods. Robert Darnton contended that while seemingly “made for each other,” book history and intellectual history had proceeded along parallel paths over the late twentieth century, with the latter focused on the analysis of discourse, while historians of the book concerned themselves with the diffusion of texts. Quentin Skinner responded to Darnton by elaborating on these “contrasts.” He characterized the history of the book as “a specialized form of inquiry into the production, diffusion and enjoyment of printed and scribally published material,” while describing intellectual historians as primarily concerned with the meanings that actors in the past have ascribed to concepts as they expressed them in language. Intellectual historians, Skinner suggested, had paid relatively little attention to the social histories of how texts were produced and received, including questions of their physical attributes. |
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