Thought Collectives And Cultural Change
 

This book investigates Ludwik Fleck's thought as a radical critique of institutionalized knowledge production, clarifying and extending his concepts to form an updated methodology. It reconstructs the cultural and institutional factors that, as Fleck insisted, are interactional - i.e., shaped by entangled processes rather than a single determinant. Offering an alternative to dominant models of cultural change, it demonstrates how new thought styles emerge, circulate, and face resistance in moments of revolutionary transformation.The central question addressed is how certain communities come to think in new ways - both in response to and contributing to cultural transformations. Such changes are fiercely contested - through censorship, exclusion, and institutional control. When Fleck's concepts are enhanced by discourse analysis, these struggles can be revealed archaeologically, showing the layers of contestation beneath claims to neutrality and purity.