“The keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge” Big History, Cosmic Evolution, and New Research Agendas

This article offers an interpretation of recent attempts at the unification of knowledge. It argues that today’s scholarly world is aberrant. It is splintered into distinct scholarly disciplines to such an extent that universities and research institutes have lost what Erwin Schrödinger called “th...

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Main Author: David Christian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Big History Association 2019-06-01
Series:Journal of Big History
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Online Access:https://jbh.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/JBH/article/view/2420