Knowledge Communities in Europe Exchange, Integration and Its Limits

The publication presents research results on a multitude of knowledge exchange processes in post-enlightenment Europe. These focus on the question in how far deeply rooted processes of knowledge exchange by transnational intellectual discourses and international expert communities have contributed to a  variety of networks of European intellectual identities and research practices. These practices again constitute a fertile framework for de-territorialised and de-nationalised exchange of knowledge that might contribute to contagious processes of emancipation, cooperation as well as problem solving.

Introduction.- Social epistemology as the philosophical framework for investigating knowledge-communities in Europe.- Dissemination of knowledge in European scientific networks in 18th century: the case of oxygen.- The scientific Paths to Europeanization: A critical sociological perspective upon the European Space Program.- Expert communities and security: Neofunctional integration in European policing practices.- The role of visible and invisible hands: Scientific communities and political integration.- The European Union’s Research and Innovation Policy as intentional community building.-Experts in EU Policy-Making: towards evidence-based problem-solving in research and innovation policy?.- Educating the people. Spanish intellectuals and reform strategies in the 19th century.- Networking in Science and Popular Science: An Anglo-German Knowledge Space in the 19th Century.