Internationalist utopias of visual education: The graphic and scenographic transformation of the universal encyclopaedia in the work of Paul otlet, Patrick Geddes, and Otto Neurath
Perspectives on Science 19 (1):32-80 (2011)
| Abstract | Paul Otlet (1868–1944) was a Belgian intellectual, a utopian internationalist and a visionary theorist of the field of information science. His work is a milestone in the history of information science since he launched the concept of "documentation," a field that evolved out of bibliography and developed into information science.1 Otlet defined documentation as the whole of the proper means of passing on, communicating, and distributing information. Otlet was a convinced apostle of the idea of universalism as the title of one of his seminal books, Monde. Essai d'Universalisme, illustrates. This was the outcome of a course of fifteen lessons, entitled "L'universalisme, doctrine philosophique et économie mondiale," .. | |||||||||
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