The Objectification of Meaning: A Systems-Theoretical Approach to (the History of) Knowledge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Section I: Individual Articles
5. Soviet Public Health and Its Pattern of Involved Non-Attachment in International Organizations 1
6. Knowledge and Society: The Role of Two Universities in Southern Europe in the Early Nineteenth Century – the Case of Coimbra and Salamanca 29
7. Ordering the Social: The History of Knowledge and the Usefulness of (Studying) Social Taxonomies 51
8. Section II: Modes of Publication
9. Modes of Publication: Introduction 71
10. Digital Newspapers, Material Knowledge: Grappling with the TimesMachine Digital Archive as a Repository of Knowledge 77
11. How to Read Wikipedia: Design Choices and the Knowing Subject 99
12. Women of the Word: Translation and Political Activism in the Age of Revolutions 111
13. Higher Education Institutional Histories: Observations, Discussion, and Definitional Glossary of the Publication Genre in Canada and the United States 123
14. Section III: Engaging the Field
15. The Objectification of Meaning: A Systems-Theoretical Approach to (the History of) Knowledge 147
16. Review Essay: The History of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism: Recent Works and Future Directions 163
17. Pasts and Futures for the Theory and Philosophy of History 189
18. Contributors 203