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Blow Memorial Hall, Room 331
262 Richmond Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location

This talk considers how disciplinarity emerged as the last and most enduring tool of the Enlightenment. Framing the Enlightenment as both a philosophical project and a historical set of technologies and practices for managing the proliferation of print, it outlines a shift from an encyclopedic to a disciplinary arrangement of knowledge in late eighteenth-century Germany. This new order of knowledge remained underdetermined, however, until an institutional framework emerged to insure its continuity. This order became disciplinary in the contemporary sense around the founding of the University of Berlin in 1810. The modern university and disciplinarity were mutually constitutive responses to changes in the organization and transmission of knowledge in the Enlightenment.

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[[rsleve, Rob Leventhal]]