The Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era

Name: The Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era
Brand: Anthem Press
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Four Evolving Metaparadigms, 1648 to Present

By: Mark E. Blum

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Paperback | 15 April 2025

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270 Pages

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The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry methods to address them, develop in a coordinated manner, given a mutual awareness.

When one organises the development of knowledge over periods of years, and gives it an appellation such as 'Modernism', the organisation of facts is guided by concepts and values discerned throughout these periods. These facts of knowledge development share sufficient understandings to be called an 'era', or an 'epoch', or other terms that insist on the shared aspects of those years. One can call such an effort a 'metahistory', in that what is tracked is not merely a knowledge that is political, economic, ideological, sociological, or scientific, but an overview that tracks the respective conceptual developments of the fields in how they have changed and augmented their problem formulations, inquiry methods, and explanatory conceptions over time.

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"Blum's vision is as panoramic as the title suggests, moving freely among fields usually kept separate from Pufendorff to Elfriede Jelinek. The work will stimulate discussion and controversy, as ambitious projects always do. It will interest anyone who values the European tradition of grand meta-historical thinking. Whatever one's verdict on Blum's "metaparadigms," it is heartening to see the revival of a genre that had once seemed defunct." - Hans Kellner, Professor of English, Chair of the NCSU Faculty, North Carolina State University, USA

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