How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making: Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Difference

Critically examines the impact of cultural difference to reveal how knowledge is mobilized to regulate identities and to establish norms and values

Highlights the latest non-Western approaches to the understanding of the knowledge production

Addresses burning concerns in history (history and philosophy of science, technology and knowledge, global history) and culture studies

Contains original essays by leading scholars

Johannes Feichtinger is a Senior Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and teaches history at the University of Vienna. He specializes in the history and philosophy of science, history of knowledge and culture studies. His publications include two monographs: Wissenschaft als reflexives Projekt. Von Bolzano über Freud zu Kelsen. Österreichische Wissenschaftsgeschichte 1848-1938 (2010), and Wissenschaft zwischen den Kulturen. Österreichische Hochschullehrer in der Emigration 1933-1945 (2001), numerous co-edited volumes, among them Habsburg Postcolonial (2003), Deploying Orientalism in Culture and History. From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe (2013), and Understanding Multiculturalism. The Habsburg Central European Experience (2014).

Anil Bhatti is Professor Emeritus at the JNU New Delhi. He specializes in the theory of literature and culture theory, modern German and comparative literature and comparative culture studies between Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and India/Asia, orientalism and postcolonial studies. His main publications include coedited volumes on Kulturelle Identität. Deutsch-indische Kulturkontakte in Literatur, Religion und Politik (1997), Reisen, Entdeckungen, Utopien (1998), Jewish Exile in India (1999), and the recently published Similarity. A Paradigm for Culture Theory (2018, in German 2015). He has published a large number of articles focusing on Language, Homogeneities, Heterogeneities and Similarity, and he holds numerous international fellowships, awards and honors, including the Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Cornelia Hülmbauer was a Junior Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2013 to 2018. She obtained a PhD from the University of Vienna with a dissertation on English as a Lingua Franca in European multilingualism. Specializing in lingua-cultural diversity and translingual practices, philosophy of language and culture studies, she worked as a researcher for the European FP6 project DYLAN - Language Dynamics and Management of Diversity as well as for the international network project Toolkit for Transnational Communication. She was co-editor of the volume Mehrsprachigkeit aus der Perspektive zweier EU-Projekte: DYLAN meets LINEE (2010) and has published various articles in international journals.