Forgetting machines : : knowledge management evolution in early modern Europe / / edited By Alberto Cevolini.
We are so accustomed to use digital memories as data storage devices, that we are oblivious to the improbability of such a practice. Habit hides what we habitually use. To understand the worldwide success of archives and card indexing systems that allow to remember more because they allow to forget...
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Superior document: | Library of the written word ; v. 53 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016] |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Library of the Written Word
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (401 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction
- Notebooks and Collections of Excerpts: Moments of ars excerpendi in the Greco-Roman World / Tiziano Dorandi
- From domus sapientiae to artes excerpendi: Lambert Schenkel’s De memoria (1593) and the Transformation of the Art of Memory / Koji Kuwakino
- Christoph Just Udenius and the German ars excerpendi around 1700: On the Flourishing and Disappearance of a Pedagogical Genre / Helmut Zedelmaier
- The Art of Excerpting in the Eighteenth Century Literature: Subversion and Continuity of an Old Scholarly Practice / Élisabeth Décultot
- Notebooks, Recollection, and External Memory: Some Early Modern English Ideas and Practices / Richard Yeo
- Storing Expansions: Openness and Closure in Secondary Memories
- Johann Amos Comenius: Early Modern Metaphysics of Knowledge and ars excerpendi / Iveta Nakládalová
- The ‘White Book’ of Miguel de Salinas: Design, Matter, and Destiny of a codex excerptorius / José Aragüés Aldaz
- Albrecht von Haller as an ‘Enlightened’ Reader-Observer / Fabian Krämer
- Medical Note-Taking in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Michael Stolberg
- Early Modern Attitudes toward the Delegation of Copying and Note-Taking / Ann Blair
- Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: Thinking Tool, Communication Partner, Publication Machine / Johannes F.K. Schmidt
- Note-Keeping: History, Theory, Practice of a Counter-Measurement against Forgetting / Markus Krajewski
- Tools to Remember an Ever-Changing Past / Elena Esposito
- Bibliography
- Index.