By any other name: early modern expertise and the problem of anachronism

IF 1 1区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

History and Technology Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI:10.1080/07341512.2019.1608082

E. Ash

引用次数: 3

Abstract

ABSTRACT The idea of expertise in early modern Europe has attracted significant attention from historians of science and technology in recent years. Some find the term useful in describing the rise of a productive and flexible combination of practical and theoretical knowledge, for which a contemporary word did not yet exist. Others criticize the term as a pernicious anachronism that not only distorts our understanding of the pre-modern past, but also serves to promote a neo-modernization theory of the history of early industrialization. The goal of this article is to ask whether an admittedly anachronistic term such as ‘expertise’ can be a useful and illuminating concept in studying early modern history; whether it can do so without warping our view of the past beyond recognition; and whether it can be decoupled from current versions of modernization theory and other whiggish historical notions.

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换句话说就是:早期现代专业知识和时代错误问题

近年来，近代早期欧洲的专家观念引起了科学技术史学家的极大关注。一些人发现这个词在描述实践和理论知识的富有成效和灵活结合的兴起时很有用，当时还没有这样一个词。其他人则批评这个词是一个有害的时代错误，它不仅扭曲了我们对前现代历史的理解，而且还促进了早期工业化历史的新现代化理论。这篇文章的目的是问一个公认的时代错误的术语，如“专业知识”是否可以是一个有用的和启发性的概念，在研究早期近代史;它能否做到这一点，而不使我们对过去的看法变得面目全非;以及它能否与当前版本的现代化理论和其他辉格派历史观念脱钩。

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History and Technology HISTORY-

CiteScore

1.60

自引率

16.70%

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期刊介绍： History and Technology serves as an international forum for research on technology in history. A guiding premise is that technology—as knowledge, practice, and material resource—has been a key site for constituting the human experience. In the modern era, it becomes central to our understanding of the making and transformation of societies and cultures, on a local or transnational scale. The journal welcomes historical contributions on any aspect of technology but encourages research that addresses this wider frame through commensurate analytic and critical approaches.