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Thought collectives and cultural changeapplying Ludwik Fleck's Theory of thought collectives to the study of cultural transformations /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Thought collectives and cultural changeby Stephen Dersley.
Reminder of title:	applying Ludwik Fleck's Theory of thought collectives to the study of cultural transformations /
Author:	Dersley, Stephen.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xv, 438 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Social changePhilosophy.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97431-1
ISBN:	9783031974311$q(electronic bk.)

Thought collectives and cultural changeapplying Ludwik Fleck's Theory of thought collectives to the study of cultural transformations /
Dersley, Stephen.

Thought collectives and cultural changeapplying Ludwik Fleck's Theory of thought collectives to the study of cultural transformations /[electronic resource] :by Stephen Dersley. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xv, 438 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Living signs of law,v. 12948-2429 ;. - Living signs of law ;v. 2..

1. Introduction -- 2. Fleck's Theory in Context -- 3. Chapter 3: Fleck's Thought - Internal Positioning -- 4. Chapter 4: A Fleckian Framework for the Study of Cultural Change -- 5. Methodology and Supplementation -- 6.The Emergence of Philosophy as a Cultural Practice in Ancient Greece -- 7. The Transmission of Philosophy - the Socratic caesura -- 8. Hegelian Bildung as a development of paideia -- 9. The Rise of the Philosophical Faculty in the German University -- 10. Philosophy, Censorship, and the Public Sphere -- 11. Conclusions.

This book investigates Ludwik Fleck's thought as a radical critique of institutionalized knowledge production, clarifying and extending his concepts to form an updated methodology. It reconstructs the cultural and institutional factors that, as Fleck insisted, are interactional - i.e., shaped by entangled processes rather than a single determinant. Offering an alternative to dominant models of cultural change, it demonstrates how new thought styles emerge, circulate, and face resistance in moments of revolutionary transformation. The central question addressed is how certain communities come to think in new ways - both in response to and contributing to cultural transformations. Such changes are fiercely contested - through censorship, exclusion, and institutional control. When Fleck's concepts are enhanced by discourse analysis, these struggles can be revealed archaeologically, showing the layers of contestation beneath claims to neutrality and purity. Tracing these conflicts from antiquity to modernity, this book examines how thought styles are marginalized, suppressed, or institutionalized. It examines the oligarchic thought style in Plato's responses to cultural trauma and loss of control, follows the spread of the Socratic caesura through Cicero's philosophia and Shaftesbury's civic reactivation of Socrates, and analyzes its role in the German university system. There, following the exclusion of Hobbes and Spinoza, Bildung became philosophy's means of asserting autonomy from theological control, culminating in Kant's Conflict of the Faculties. This book rejects single-determinant models of cultural change - economic, epistemic, discursive, or technological - while also challenging entrenched dichotomies such as myth vs. logos, Enlightenment vs. Counter-Enlightenment, and the public sphere vs. the state. Expanding on Fleck's theory of thought styles, it develops an open epistemology that continuously reveals new dimensions of cultural facts and their institutional regulation. The book offers a methodologically innovative framework for understanding cultural change. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of philosophy, intellectual history, discourse analysis, and the history of ideas, as well as those exploring the interplay of thought, power, and institutional authority.

ISBN: 9783031974311$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-97431-1doiSubjects--Personal Names:

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Fleck, Ludwik,
1896-1961.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Social change
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: HM831

Dewey Class. No.: 303.401

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