Reading The History Manifesto as a Historian of Mathematics in Ancient China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4174352
AutoresKarine Chemla (0000-0002-2625-5736, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen107
Número2
Páginas324-333
Fecha de publicación2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIsis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/687222
PMID27439290
OpenAlexW2410064821
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas3

The History Manifesto invites historians to consider the social and political responsibilities attached to their profession. This general concern is equally meaningful for the field of history and for the history and philosophy of science and technology. The specific concerns that motivate Jo Guldi and David Armitage lead them to advocate the "longue durée" and to insist primarily on social inequality, climate change, and governance. The concern on which this response to The History Manifesto centers is historians' social.responsibility in the waging of wars and their ethical responsibility at least not to contribute to mounting tensions. For the historian Lucien Febvre, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, a history of science and culture practiced in a certain way had a specific part to play in this regard. Febvre's practice of long-term history differed from Fernand Braudel's approach to the longue durée, in the tradition of which Guldi and Armitage situate their manifesto. This essay suggests that a historical approach to long-term history, sensitive to the concern Febvre voiced, might be helpful. It argues that long-term histories of science and technology practiced in a certain way have contributed to shaping collectives that perceive themselves as communities. Critical analysis of our practices as historians could certainly help develop awareness in our field in this respect

Aesthetics · China · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · History of science · Manifesto · Political history · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Social history (medicine · Social science · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History and Philosophy of Science · Law · Philosophy