3/19/2023 0 Comments Kuhn paradigm shift![]() Throughout my growth as a historian, I’ve been fascinated by theory. I was absolutely stoked for the class day in which we discussed the book there was so much I wanted to say, to ask, to listen to, about this text. Other students warned me that it was hard, it was boring, it was too dense, but for whatever reason, Kuhn’s framework and discussion just clicked for me. I still vividly remember the feeling, when it came time to read it during the semester, that Kuhn just made sense. I first encountered Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions my (first) senior year as an undergraduate History major, where it was part of the reading list for a seminar on the Scientific Revolution I took with the professor who was also my undergraduate advisor. When I thought about the books which were the paradigm-shifters in my own journey as a historian, it was the book which made “paradigm shift” an actual thing in our scholarly discourse that came immediately to mind. Kevin Gannon, now with 6 feet of social distancing January 28, 2019 Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions This was certainly the case for my selection: I learned all sorts of things: very few historians write as well as William Cronon did, for example, and a lot of the books that changed our view of the discipline weren’t in our specific subfields or areas of expertise. #twitterstorians, what is one book that changed how you looked at the discipline?Ī great discussion broke out in the replies, as one would expect when a bunch of historians are asked about books. Earlier this week, a cool Twitter thread happened, started by query to historians about any pivotal, paradigm-shifting (for them) books they’d read
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