Disciplines in the making : cross-cultural perspectives on elites, learning, and innovation / G.E.R. Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning and scholarship--Cross-cultural studies.

Learning and scholarship.

Universities and colleges--Curricula--Cross-cultural studies.

Universities and colleges.

Elite (Social sciences)--Attitudes--Cross-cultural studies.

Elite (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Cross-cultural perspectives on elites, learning, and innovation

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The organisation of higher education across the world is one of several factors that conspire to create the assumption that our own map of the intellectual disciplines is, broadly speaking, valid cross-culturally. Disciplines in the Making challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion and science. Lloyd focuses on historical and cross-cultural data that throw light on the differentways in which these disciplines were constituted and defined in different periods and civilisations, especially in ancient G

Contents:

Introduction

What is philosophy?

Mathematics

History

Medicine

Art

Law

Religion

Science

Conclusion: Discipline and interdisciplinarity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-203) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-969471-0

0-19-157064-8

9786612349324

1-282-34932-5

OCLC:

539203944