Robert K. Merton

On the Shoulders of Giants - The Post-Italianate Edition

The Post-Italianate Edition

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With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Using as a model the discursive and digressive style of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Merton presents a whimsical yet scholarly work which deals with the questions of creativity, tradition, plagiarism, the transmission of knowledge, and the concept of progress. This book is the delightful apotheosis of donmanship: Merton parodies scholarliness while being faultlessly scholarly; he scourges pedantry while brandishing his own abstruse learning on every page. The most recondite and obsc… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-226-52086-5
EAN: 9780226520865
Produktnummer: 1440142
Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
Seitenangabe: 348 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.5 cm 558 g
Abbildungen: 4 halftones
Gewicht: 558

Über den Autor

Robert K. Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, Foundation Scholar of the Russell Sage Foundation, and a MacArthur Prize Fellow. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has received numerous honors and prizes for his work in both science and the humanities. His many books include the classic Social Theory and Social Structure, the Sociology of Science, Sociological Ambivalence, and Science, Technology, and Society in Seventeenth-Century England.