A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.
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The role that “system” has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our...

The Architecture of Concepts proposes a radically new way of understanding the history of ideas. Taking as its example human...

The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge

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The Romantic poet's intense yearning to share thoughts and feelings often finds expression in a style that thwarts a connection...

Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question...

The Other Adam Smith represents the next wave of critical thinking about the still under-examined work of this paradigmatic Enlightenment...

Most people believed that reading significantly influenced minds, attitudes, and actions during the centuries when printed paper was the only...

In this provocative exploration of how the digital shapes the way we think about theatre, Bill Blake questions why the...

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, “What...

Letters played a foundational role in facilitating the rise of print and popularizing new modes of writing in the long...