With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton's aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Using as a model the discursive and digressive style of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Merton presents a whimsical yet scholarly work which deals with the questions of creativity, tradition, plagiarism, the transmission of knowledge, and the concept of progress. "This book is the delightful apotheosis of donmanship: Merton parodies scholarliness while being faultlessly scholarly; he scourges pedantry while brandishing his own abstruse learning on every page. The most recondite and obscure scholarly squabbles are transmuted into the material of comedy as the ostensible subject is shouldered to one side by yet another hobby horse from Merton's densely populated stable. He has created a jeu d'esprit which is profoundly suggestive both in detail and as a whole."--Sean French, Times Literary Supplement
發表於2025-02-11
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Goodreads上有人評論說There are some books that I just don't get, and this was one of them. 當年在紐約上課時我導順口提瞭一句,說是本奇書,非常有趣。等我迴國後花費好大一番力氣卻怎麼也找不到資源,五年過去瞭,如今來DC果斷館際互藉瞭。 這本書1965年初版,起因是195...
評分Goodreads上有人評論說There are some books that I just don't get, and this was one of them. 當年在紐約上課時我導順口提瞭一句,說是本奇書,非常有趣。等我迴國後花費好大一番力氣卻怎麼也找不到資源,五年過去瞭,如今來DC果斷館際互藉瞭。 這本書1965年初版,起因是195...
評分Goodreads上有人評論說There are some books that I just don't get, and this was one of them. 當年在紐約上課時我導順口提瞭一句,說是本奇書,非常有趣。等我迴國後花費好大一番力氣卻怎麼也找不到資源,五年過去瞭,如今來DC果斷館際互藉瞭。 這本書1965年初版,起因是195...
評分Goodreads上有人評論說There are some books that I just don't get, and this was one of them. 當年在紐約上課時我導順口提瞭一句,說是本奇書,非常有趣。等我迴國後花費好大一番力氣卻怎麼也找不到資源,五年過去瞭,如今來DC果斷館際互藉瞭。 這本書1965年初版,起因是195...
評分Goodreads上有人評論說There are some books that I just don't get, and this was one of them. 當年在紐約上課時我導順口提瞭一句,說是本奇書,非常有趣。等我迴國後花費好大一番力氣卻怎麼也找不到資源,五年過去瞭,如今來DC果斷館際互藉瞭。 這本書1965年初版,起因是195...
圖書標籤: 社會學 學術 英文 知識社會學
知識社會學的意識流寫法……“站在巨人肩膀上”的大型考據學
評分知識社會學的意識流寫法……“站在巨人肩膀上”的大型考據學
評分知識社會學的意識流寫法……“站在巨人肩膀上”的大型考據學
評分More recently, over the last three and a half decades, Mr. Merton had been gathering information about the ideas of serendipity, and thinking about it in the same spirit in which he had written the earlier book, which he liked to call by its acronym, OTSOG. Most days he started work at 4:30 a.m., with some of his 15 cats keeping him company.
評分知識社會學的意識流寫法……“站在巨人肩膀上”的大型考據學
On the Shoulders of Giants 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載