The Promotion of Knowledge: Lectures to Mark the Centenary of the British Academy 1902-2002

John Morrill

ISBN 10: 0197263127 / ISBN 13: 9780197263129

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2004

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Titolo: The Promotion of Knowledge: Lectures to Mark...

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press

Data di pubblicazione: 2004

Legatura: Hardback

Condizione: New

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To mark its centenary in 2002, the British Academy invited leading universities around the UK to host public lectures on the current state of and future prospects for a cross section of the disciplines which fall within the Academy's compass. The Academy proposed the discipline and the universities nominated their preferred speakers. Those selected were drawn from Britain, Europe and the USA, and they rose magnificently to the challenge, while interpteting it in a way specific to their discipline. The eight essays (plus four commentaries) span the disciplines in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, from History of Art to International Relations and Geography. These are reflections on the stability and instability of the ways in which we organize knowledge and on how far the academic community can and should be involved in the shaping of public policy.

Contenuti:

• John Morrill: Introduction: The British Academy Centenary Lectures
• Brian Barry: : A Hundred Years of Studying Politics: What Have We Got To Show For It?
• David Cannadine: What is History Now?
• John Elderfield: The Adventures of the Optic Nerve
• David Harvey: Geographical Knowledges/Political Powers
• Julia Kristeva: Is there a Feminine Genius?
• James Mayall: Between Anarchy and Community in International Relations
• Josiah Ober: Classical Athenian Democracy and Democracy Today: Culture, Knowledge, Power
• Keith Robbins: Location and Dislocation: Ireland, Scotland and Wales in their Insular Alignment
• Cairns Craig: A Scottish Perspective
• Cathal G. Ó Háinle: An Irish Perspective
• Geraint Jenkins: A Welsh Perspective
• Edna Longley: A Post-Ukanian Response to Keith Robbins