The modernity of classification

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 710-730

  Mai, Jens Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Epistemology; Late modernity; Modernity; Philosophical concepts

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960621254     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411111145061     Document Type: Article

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