Lost in Leipzig
Alexander Bevilacqua: Forgotten Thinkers, 29 June 2023
Knowledge Lost: A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History
by Martin Mulsow, translated by H.C. Erik Midelfort.
Princeton, 434 pp., £35, January,978 0 691 20865 7 Show More
by Martin Mulsow, translated by H.C. Erik Midelfort.
Princeton, 434 pp., £35, January,
“... two.In Knowledge Lost, published in German in 2012 and now translated into English, the historian Martin Mulsow argues for fresh consideration of members of the European Wissensprekariat, or ‘intellectual precariat’. The expansion of German universities during the early modern period created a surfeit of graduates, many of whom were unable to find ... ”
