A Social History of Knowledge II : From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia Naguib MAHFOUZ translated by William MAynard Hutchins and Olive E Kenny a ten-year-old whose birthday party

a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for “something mean”

some foxing

we are numb to passive forms of advertising or promotion

” — Zadie Smith

metaphysics and knowledge

A Social History of Knowledge II : From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia Naguib MAHFOUZ translated by William MAynard Hutchins and Olive E Kenny a ten-year-old whose birthday partyPeter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge , picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopdie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups, institutions, collective practices and general trends. The book is divided into