{"id":40251,"date":"2024-03-29T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T08:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=40251"},"modified":"2024-03-29T08:21:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T08:21:06","slug":"peter-burke-ignorance-a-global-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=40251","title":{"rendered":"Peter Burke, \u201eIgnorance: A Global History\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&#8220;A fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance&#8221;\u2014Jeffrey Collins, <\/strong><em><strong>Times Literary Supplement<\/strong><\/em><strong><br><br>&#8220;A declaration of love for education&#8221;\u2014Stefan Bauer, <em>History Today<\/em><br><br>&#8220;Dazzling . . . a deliciously knowledgeable history of ignorance&#8221;\u2014David Armitage<br><br>A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day<\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkness, Enlightenment thinkers tried to sweep superstition away with reason, the modern welfare state sought to slay the \u201cgiant\u201d of ignorance, and in today\u2019s hyperconnected world seemingly limitless information is available on demand. But what about the knowledge lost over the centuries? Are we really any less ignorant than our ancestors?<br>\u00a0<br>In this highly original account, Peter Burke examines the long history of humanity\u2019s ignorance across religion and science, war and politics, business and catastrophes. Burke reveals remarkable stories of the many forms of ignorance\u2014genuine or feigned, conscious and unconscious\u2014from the willful politicians who redrew Europe\u2019s borders in 1919 to the politics of whistleblowing and climate change denial. The result is a lively exploration of human knowledge across the ages, and the importance of recognizing its limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Peter Burke<\/strong> is emeritus professor of cultural history at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many distinguished books that have been translated into more than thirty languages, including <em>The Polymath<\/em> and <em>What Is the History of Knowledge?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Praise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Ignorance: A Global History<\/em> explores the myriad ways in which \u2018not-knowing\u2019 affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill. . . . Burke takes all ignorance\u2014rather than all knowledge\u2014for his province. . . . Throughout . . . , Burke peppers readers with a flurry of striking factoids, quotations and anecdotes.\u201d\u2014Michael Dirda, <em>Washington Post<\/em><br><br>\u201cFrom this storehouse of historical data Burke offers a fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance.\u201d\u2014Jeffrey Collins, <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em><br><br>\u201cExplores the ways \u2018obstacles, forgetting, secrecy, denial, uncertainty, prejudice, misunderstanding and credulity\u2019 have impacted the course of history, from the redrawing of borders to climate change denial and more.\u201d\u2014<em>New York Times Book Review<\/em><br><br>\u201c[A] fascinating new history of worldwide ignorance.\u201d\u2014Peter B. Kaufman, <em>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em><br><br>A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023<br><br>\u201cIgnorance might seem to be a pressing contemporary problem but, as this dazzling, comprehensive book shows, it has many pasts. Only Peter Burke could have written such a deliciously knowledgeable history of ignorance.\u201d\u2014David Armitage, <em>Civil Wars: A History in Ideas<\/em><br><br>\u201cA rich, fascinating book of astonishing range. Burke impresses the need for awe and humility about how much humanity doesn\u2019t know or refuses to know, and how this problem shifts and resurfaces across eras.\u201d\u2014Linsey McGoey, author of <em>The Unknowers<\/em><br><br>\u201cDelivers a journey through all forms of not knowing, from secrecies to unintended consequences, to different forms of forgetting things formerly known. Burke shows that as more knowledge is generated, the horizon of ignorance can widen\u2014for good or for bad. Burke\u2019s new book will not only be a milestone in ignorance studies, but should become standard reading.\u201d\u2014Matthias Gross, author of <em>Ignorance and Surprise<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yale University Press<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ignorance.jpg?fit=654%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53443,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53443","url_meta":{"origin":40251,"position":0},"title":"The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"18. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos and Gis\u00e8le Sapiro The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas establishes a new and comprehensive way of working in the history and sociology of ideas, in order to obviate several longstanding gaps that have prevented a fruitful interdisciplinary and international dialogues. 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