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Dirk Werle
About this book
The study investigates imaginary libraries in literary works of the 16th and 17th centuries and their status in the context of the history of ideas. Since the invention of printing there had been a headlong increase in the production of texts, accompanied by a corresponding information overload. These were the preconditions required for certain feats of the imagination to become possible in the first place. In the form of thought-experiments, contemporary literary figures and scholars attempted to outline solutions for the urgent problems involved in imposing order on the unmanageable plethora of texts and assuring the progress of knowledge in the face of the untrammeled abundance of factual information.
Reviews
"Die umfangreiche Arbeit erschließt eindrucksvoll viele bislang wenig bekannte Texte, die auf unterschiedliche Weise die Transformationen des frühneuzeitlichen gelehrten Wissens reflektieren."
Helmut Zedelmaier in: Zeitschrift für Germanistik 3/2010
"Es ist zu hoffen, dass Dirk Werle mit seiner materialreichen Problemgeschichte imaginierter Bibliotheken zu zahlreichen weiteren, für Buch- und Bibliothekshistoriker relevanten Forschungen anregt."
Helmut Hilz in: IASLonline 9/2007
"Der Rezensent hat das Buch nicht nur mit Gewinn, sondern auch mit Vergnügen gelesen."
Marco Frenschkowski in: Ebernburg-Hefte 2007
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