Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation

by G.E.R. Lloyd

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199567875
• ISBN13: 9780199567874
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"