Knowledge Communities in Europe: Exchange, Integration and Its Limits

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The publication presents research results on a multitude of knowledge exchange processes in post-enlightenment Europe. These focus on the question in how far deeply rooted processes of knowledge exchange by transnational intellectual discourses and international expert communities have contributed to a variety of networks of European intellectual identities and research practices. These practices again constitute a fertile framework for de-territorialised and de-nationalised exchange of knowledge that might contribute to contagious processes of emancipation, cooperation as well as problem solving. Front Matter ....Pages I-VI Introduction (Bertold Schweitzer, Thomas Sukopp)....Pages 1-14 Discoveries of Oxygen and the “Chemical Revolution” in the Context of European Scientific Networks (Thomas Sukopp)....Pages 15-47 From Interaction to Integration? (Bertold Schweitzer)....Pages 49-66 Science and the Manufacture of a Political Order (Julie Patarin-Jossec)....Pages 67-92 European Research Programmes (Patricia Bauer)....Pages 93-114 Expert Communities and Security (Stephen Rozée)....Pages 115-135 An Epistemic-Consequentialist Social Epistemology as an Epistemological Perspective Concerning the Investigation of a Common, European Knowledge Community (Sebastian Nähr)....Pages 137-162 Back Matter ....Pages 163-164