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    ‘Mere chips from his workshop’: Gotthard Deutsch’s monumental card index of Jewish history
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    1. chrisaldrich 20 Feb 2023
      one finds in Deutsch’s catalogue one implementation of what LorraineDaston would later term ‘mechanical objectivity’, an ideal of removing the scholar’s selffrom the process of research and especially historical and scientific representation (Das-ton and Galison, 2007: 115-90).

      In contrast to the sort of mixing of personal life and professional life suggested by C. Wright Mills' On Intellectual Craftsmanship (1952), a half century earlier Gotthard Deutsch's zettelkasten method showed what Lorraine Datson would term 'mechanical objectivity'. This is an interesting shift in philosophical perspective of note taking practice. It can also be compared and contrasted with a 21st century perspective of "personal" knowledge management.

      Gotthard Deutsch's zettelkasten C. Wright Mills On Intellectual Craftsmanship mechanical objectivity personal knowledge management Lorraine Datson philosophy historical method

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