Lively debates have taken place about what the history of knowledge can offer that other approaches cannot. In this article we argue that the advantage of the history of knowledge is its capacity to open up new possibilities for historical work and reflection that are deeply infused with interdisciplinary perspectives and tools. This is important because, within both the academy and in society and politics more widely, we are actually within a knowledge turn or moment in which the stakes of delivering and challenging knowledge are unusually high. At the level of events, experiences, and concepts, the knowledge turn needs examination. The articles in this theme issue also show how issues within the theory of history and the theory of knowledge are ripe for deeper understanding, as both explore deeply issues and doubts about such things as historical development and progress and the existence and importance of knowledge itself, its relation to science and humanistic endeavors, as well as its European, Western, and global historical contexts. These articles also advance a knowledge toolkit of great attraction for historians of all subfields: notions like disknowledge, delay, conceptual and logical comparison, media, materiality, information, and networks are dynamic and productive. In the end, we argue that historical knowledge is itself a key concept that is open to present and past, necessarily constructive in orientation, and skeptical in approach without denying that some types of knowing are more powerful than others and that knowledge as a concept and topic strengthens our interdisciplinary historical and cultural work.

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开放门：转向知识

关于知识史可以提供哪些其他方法无法提供的知识，已经进行了激烈的辩论。在本文中，我们认为知识历史的优势在于它有能力为跨学科的观点和工具深化注入的历史工作和反思提供新的可能性。这很重要，因为在学院，社会和政治中，我们实际上处在知识转向或时刻，在这一时刻，传递和挑战知识的风险异常高。在事件，经验和概念的层面上，知识转向需要检验。本主题文章中的文章还展示了历史理论和知识理论中的问题如何逐渐深入理解，他们都对历史发展和进步以及知识本身的存在和重要性，它与科学和人文事业的关系以及欧洲，西方和全球历史背景等问题进行了深入探讨和怀疑。这些文章还为所有子领域的历史学家提供了一个极具吸引力的知识工具包：诸如磁盘知识，延迟，概念和逻辑比较，媒体，重要性，信息和网络之类的概念是动态且富有成效的。最后，我们认为历史知识本身就是一个对当前和过去开放的关键概念，必然在方向上具有建设性，