Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot

This is a unique and original attempt to develop a social history of knowledge by one of the leading cultural historians todayDraws on the work of a wide range of historians and social thinkers including Bourdieu, Foucault, Weber and MannheimExamines the history of knowledge in Europe throughout the early modern period from the invention of the printing press to the publication of the EncyclopUdie Clearly written in an accessible style