All the Knowledge in the World
Autor Simon Garfielden Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 sep 2022
Deși istoria ideilor dispune de numeroase studii sectoriale, literatura academică a resimțit multă vreme lipsa unei cronici accesibile care să urmărească metamorfoza enciclopediei de la instrument de erudiție elitist la fenomen digital global. În All the Knowledge in the World, Simon Garfield completează această lacună, oferind o perspectivă narativă asupra efortului uman de a „îmblânzi” totalitatea informațiilor într-o singură sursă. Găsim în această carte o analiză fascinantă a modului în care aceste volume masive au modelat înțelegerea lumii, înainte de a deveni obiecte de colecție care adună praful pe rafturi.
Lucrarea extinde cadrul propus de Knowing What We Know de Simon Winchester cu date noi despre mecanismele editoriale din spatele Encyclopedia Britannica și despre proiecte monumentale, precum manuscrisul chinezesc de 11.000 de volume, imposibil de tipărit. Față de abordarea sociologică a lui Peter Burke din A Social History of Knowledge II, Garfield optează pentru un ton vibrant, concentrându-se pe figurile obsesive — de la Pliniu cel Bătrân la editorii moderni — care au crezut în promisiunea cunoașterii complete. Merită menționat că autorul nu se limitează la elogii; el investighează modul în care enciclopediiile au reflectat prejudecățile epocii în ceea ce privește rasa și genul.
Poziționată în continuarea preocupărilor sale pentru micro-istorii și sisteme de organizare — vizibile în Timekeepers sau In Miniature — această lucrare demonstrează aceeași abilitate de a extrage semnificații majore din detalii aparent obscure. Ritmul este alert, transformând o temă potențial aridă într-o călătorie intelectuală despre ce am câștigat și ce am pierdut în tranziția către Wikipedia.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1474610781
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 133 x 216 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Weidenfeld and Nicholson
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De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este o recomandare esențială pentru cei fascinați de istoria culturii și de modul în care organizăm informația. Cititorul va descoperi culisele unei industrii care a definit educația modernă, înțelegând de ce am abandonat volumele legate în piele pentru ecranele telefoanelor. Este o lectură care transformă nostalgia după vechile enciclopedii într-o reflecție critică despre autoritate, adevăr și limitele cunoașterii umane.
Despre autor
Simon Garfield este un jurnalist și scriitor britanic de non-ficțiune, cunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a transforma subiecte de nișă în narațiuni captivante. A colaborat mult timp cu publicația The Observer și a fost recompensat cu premiul Somerset Maugham pentru volumul The End of Innocence. Opera sa explorează frecvent intersecția dintre istorie, design și comportament uman, abordând teme diverse, de la istoria culorilor și a tipografiei până la percepția timpului. În All the Knowledge in the World, Garfield își folosește experiența de cercetător pentru a cartografia ambiția umană de a arhiva întreg universul cunoașterii.
Descriere scurtă
Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped millions of children with their homework. Adults cleared their shelves in the belief that everything that was explainable was now effortlessly accessible in their living rooms.
But now these huge books gather dust, and sell for almost nothing on eBay, and we derive our information from our phones and computers, apparently for free. What have we lost in this transition? And how did we tell the progress of our lives in the past?
All the Knowledge in the World is a history and celebration of those who created the most ground-breaking and remarkable publishing phenomenon of any age. It tracks the story from Ancient Greece to Wikipedia, from modest single-volumes to the 11,000-volume Chinese manuscript that was too big to print. It looks at how Encyclopaedia Britannica came to dominate the industry, how it spawned hundreds of competitors, and how an army of ingenious door-to-door salesmen sold their wares to guilt-ridden parents. It explains how encyclopaedias have reflected our changing attitudes towards sexuality, race and technology, and exposes how these ultimate bastions of trust were often riddled with errors and prejudice.
With his characteristic ability to tackle the broadest of subjects in an illuminating and highly entertaining way, Simon Garfield uncovers a fascinating and important part of our shared past, and wonders whether the promise of complete knowledge - that most human of ambitions - will forever be beyond our grasp.
Descriere
'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times
An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times
'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday
'Remarkable . . . engrossing' Sunday Times
'A pleasure' Spectator
'An infectiously enthusiastic history' Times Literary Supplement
The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Now these huge books sell for almost nothing on eBay while we derive information from our phones. What have we lost in this transition? All the Knowledge in the World tracks the story from Ancient Greece to Wikipedia, from modest single-volumes to the 11,000-volume Chinese manuscript that was too big to print. It exposes how encyclopaedias reflect our changing attitudes towards sexuality, race and technology, uncovers a fascinating part of our shared past and wonders whether the promise of complete knowledge - that most human of ambitions - will forever be beyond our grasp.
Recenzii
Simon Garfield's history of the encyclopaedia is full of jawdropping facts, and he turns what might have been a dry subject into an enjoyable, quirky, highly informative tour . . . fascinating
A delightful romp through the history of trying to summarise all there is to be known. Simon Garfield displays his inimitable mix of curiosity, learnedness and wit
Remarkable . . . engrossing. It is impossible to give readers an impression of the scope and power of Garfield's knowledge and imagination
An erudite and amusing exploration of the human quest for knowledge
Simon Garfield's fascinating story of encyclopaedias is itself brilliantly encyclopaedic
All human life is here - and animal, vegetable and mineral life, too
A pleasure. Garfield writes fluidly, cheerily and charmingly, even while the breeziness does not detract from the scale of his ambition: to understand nothing less than humans' need for knowledge and how to convey and preserve it
Illuminating . . . An infectiously enthusiastic history, inspired by genuine affection
A gripping story - so much I didn't know here! I loved this book
Suitably encyclopaedic - written with all [Garfield's] usual wit and sharp eye for memorable facts
A valentine to the monumental significance of encyclopaedias, reminding us how, until the arrival of computers, "they did more than any other single thing to shape our understanding of the world". Illustrates Garfield's capacity to synthesise wide-ranging research and present it in a lucid, vibrant style with his characteristic eye for detail
Delightful. Garfield's witty history captures the obsessive, quixotic and sometimes error-filled quests of those . . . who have attempted to corral all the world's information into a single source
The life and death of the encyclopedia is recounted in Simon Garfield's excellent new book . . . Garfield is lucid, witty, learned and clearly a bibliomaniac . . . In All the Knowledge in the World, he has produced a lively threnody to the encyclopedic impulse . . . Impressively comprehensive
A fascinating history . . . Lively and informative
Simon Garfield is the only author who could ever keep me up at night reading about encyclopedias. A brilliant book about knowledge itself
Magnificent . . . The story [Garfield] tells is truly extraordinary . . . A perfectly styled work of literature - at times sad, at times funny, but always full of life . . . One of those few books that I've found impossible to put down
Anyone fascinated by the origins, evolution and the ultimate mortality of print encyclopedias will love this book. All the Knowledge in the World is excellent at telling the long historical story of all encyclopedias, including those that predated Britannica. The book does a great job of detailing the 20th-century history of Britannica and the full story of Wikipedia's creation, challenges and impact