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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer
Event type:
online: Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
Book/Knowledge
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Contents:
Books start revolutions, shape societies and alters knowledge. But how books manage to do this is an intricate history, especially of non-fiction. The lecture traces this history, beginning with humanism and the Reformation, continuing with the development of modern science in the 17th century, to the age of enlightenment and revolution, and finally to the development of a bourgeois, i.e. reading society in the 19th century. This history brings about contradiction not only, but then also in the 20th century, when popular knowledge and political radicalisation join forces. The emergence of the modern scientific society after World War II is hardly conceivable without the expansion of internationally trading scientific publishers. Digitalisation is once again driving the globalisation of the knowledge society in the 21st century. The topic of the lecture is therefore also and especially the current situation of the non-fiction and science market and its future.
Recommended reading list:
Borkaw, C., & Kornicki, P., The History of the Book in East Asia. London: Routledge 2013.
Carter, T.F., The Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward. New York: Columbia University Press 1931.
Darnton, R., Glänzende Geschäfte. Die Verbreitung von Diderots Encyclopedie oder: Wie verkauft man Wissen mit Gewinn. Aus dem Englischen und Französischen von H. Günther. Frankfurt/M.: Fischer 1998.
Estermann, M. & Schneider, U. (Hg.), Wissenschaftsverlage zwischen Professionalisierung und Popularisierung. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2007.
Greco, A., Academic Libraries and the Economics of Scholarly Publishing in the Twenty-First Century: Portfolio Theory, Product Differentiation, Economic Rent, Perfect Price Discrimination, and the Cost of Prestige. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 47 (1) (2015): 1–43
Grafton, A., Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020.
Hahnemann, A. / Oels, D. (Hg.), Sachbuch und populäres Wissen im 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. u. a.: Lang 2008.
Jäger, G., Buchhandel und Wissenschaft. Zur Ausdifferenzierung des wissenschaftlichen Buchhandels. Siegen: Lumis 1990.
Jochum, U., Geschichte der abendländischen Bibliotheken. Darmstadt: wbg 2012.
Oels, D. / Schikowski, M. / Schneider, U., & Schütz, E. (Hg.), Non Fiktion. Arsenal der anderen Gattungen. Hannover: Wehrhahn 2006 ff.
Schikowski, M., Immer schön sachlich. Eine kleine Geschichte des Sachbuchs 1870–1918, Frankfurt/M.: Bramann 2010.
The History of the Scientific Journal
https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophicaltransactions/
Le Journal des sçavans
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb343488023/date
Liste der meistverkauften Sachbücher in Deutschland
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_meistverkauften_Sachb%C3%BCcher_in_Deutschland
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