TY - GEN AU - Gurukkal, Rajan TI - History and theory of knowledge production: an introductory outline SN - 9780199490363 (hbk.) PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Knowledge management KW - Knowledge management -- India KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Knowledge, Theory of -- India N1 - Includes bibliographic references and index; Introduction -- Social theory of knowledge production -- Knowledge production -- European roots -- The rise of science -- Science of uncertainty -- Summing up N2 - This text seeks to provide an introductory outline of the history and theory of knowledge production, notwithstanding the vastness of the subject. It is a brief history of intellectual formation or history of ideas. One can see it as a textbook of historical epistemology, which in spatio-temporal terms historicises knowledge production and contextualises methodological development. It addresses the historical process of the social constitution of knowledge, that is, the social history of the making of knowledge ER -