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dc.contributor.advisor | Allen, Barry | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Perovic, Sanja | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T17:05:22Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T17:05:22Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2013-12-02 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 1998-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/8647 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 9660 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 4865357 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13817 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Knowledge and Memory: The Institutionalization of the Written Word deals with the relation between institutions and knowledge. More specifically, it deals with the effects of writing on the organization and institutionalization of memory. I show how the conception of memory as a written trace (as something made manifest in archives, documents and books) changes the relation between the subject, time and space to yield new paradigms of knowledge.</p> <p>I begin by tracing the emergence of the written word from its origins in the Greek alphabet in order to show how the birth of the unified, rational self is a product of the spatial projection of speech onto the written page. I then discuss how the spatialization of language relates to the linguistication of space by considering four technological developments in the medieval practise of reading: the art of memory, indexes, signatures and copies. I show how the self is discovered as someone who reads into his own heart as if it were a text and how the newfound literate conception of knowledge as textual dissemination separates the self from his self-knowledge. I end by investigating the logic of institutions which gain power on the basis of a textual organization of knowledge. In particular, I consider how textual canons give professional bodies monopoly over discourse through a disciplinary division of knowledge, resulting in a society which is increasingly dependent on its experts to give it a sense of direction.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.title | Knowledge and Memory: The Institutionalization of the Written Word | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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