19th century
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administration
agriculture
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college
deliberation
economics
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finance
forestry
french revolution
german sciences
germany
higher education
historical
history
inquiry
law
lecture
legal systems
mining
paul-michel foucault
pierre bourdieu
policy
political contexts
politics
private correspondence
reform
science
sociological
sociology
specialization
state officials
system of knowledge
universities
variation
Product details
- ISBN 9780226482415
- Weight: 709g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jun 1997
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Drawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, this book sets out to illuminate the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during 19th-century Germany. Using information derived from many sources, including state and university archives, private correspondence, and a survey of lecture offerings in German universities, it examines the original group of learned disciplines which originated in 18th-century Germany as a curriculum to train state officials in the administration and reform of society. These disciplines included economics, statistics, public administration, finance and state law, as well as agriculture, forestry and mining. The book explores the ways in which some systems of knowledge became extinct, and how new ones came into existence, while others migrated to different subject areas. Lindenfeld argues that these sciences of state developed a technique of deliberation on practical issues such as tax policy and welfare which serves as a model for contemporary administrations.
