Wouter Van Acker (Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles) \u2013 wouter.van.acker@ulb.ac.be<\/p>\n
Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n Paul Otlet\u2019s exploration of the idea to record information in separate chunks or units according to the \u2018monographic principle\u2019 has provoked considerable interest in information history for the way in which it resonates with the present tendency to conceive of information as detachable and manipulable units, whose retrieveability has become more important than the information itself. This paper aims to dissect within Otlet\u2019s historical and intellectual context the make-up of the positivist epistemology underpinning his concept of the \u201cUniversal Book\u201d. The \u201cUniversal Book\u201d was of central importance in his theory of documentation as it proposed how documentalists\u2014the new experts trained in documentary procedures\u2014were to operate. These professionals were asked to gather facts or objective knowledge by removing the unwanted \u201cdross\u201d of subjectivity, and to synthesize those facts in an encyclopaedic form in order to make them ready for public use. Through an inquiry into the wide-ranging epistemological views prevalent in the French intellectual milieu in the belle \u00e9poque\u2014notably monism, energeticism, materialism, idealism and spiritualism\u2014this paper questions the positivist label that has been attributed to his concept of documentation.<\/p>\n Wouter Van Acker (Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles) \u2013 wouter.van.acker@ulb.ac.be<\/p>\n R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n L’exploration de Paul Otlet de la question de l\u2019enregistrement des informations comme des unit\u00e9s ou des morceaux s\u00e9par\u00e9s selon \u00ab\u00a0le principe monographique\u00a0\u00bb a suscit\u00e9 un int\u00e9r\u00eat consid\u00e9rable dans l’histoire de l’information. <\/em>Une ressemblance frappante a \u00e9t\u00e9 remarqu\u00e9e entre l\u2019\u00e9tude de la th\u00e9orie de la documentation d\u2019Otlet et la tendance actuelle de concevoir l\u2019information comme des unit\u00e9s d\u00e9tachables et manipulables dont la possibilit\u00e9 de les r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer est plus importante que l\u2019information elle-m\u00eame. Ce document de recherche vise \u00e0 mettre en \u00e9vidence dans le contexte historique et intellectuel d\u2019Otlet le conditionnement d\u2019\u00e9pist\u00e9mologie positiviste qui entoure son concept de \u00ab\u00a0Livre Universel\u00a0\u00bb. Ce dernier concept qui occupe une part centrale dans sa th\u00e9orie de documentation d\u00e9finissait les proc\u00e9dures et les t\u00e2ches que les documentalistes devaient compl\u00e9ter\u00a0; notamment les processus de rassemblement de faits objectifs, d\u2019enl\u00e8vement \u00ab\u00a0des d\u00e9chets\u00a0\u00bb ind\u00e9sirables contamin\u00e9s de subjectivit\u00e9, et de cr\u00e9ation d\u2019une synth\u00e8se encyclop\u00e9dique destin\u00e9e \u00e0 la consultation publique. \u00c0 travers une analyse historique de l\u2019univers du discours au sujet de l\u2019\u00e9pist\u00e9mologie dans le milieu intellectuel fran\u00e7ais de la belle \u00e9poque\u2014notamment le monisme, l\u2019\u00e9nerg\u00e9tisme, le mat\u00e9rialisme, l’id\u00e9alisme et le spiritualisme\u2014ce document de recherche remet en question la singularit\u00e9 de l’\u00e9tiquette du positivisme qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9e au concept de documentation d\u2019Otlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CONSTITUENTS AND ANTINOMIES OF PAUL OTLET\u2019S POSITIVIST ENCYCLOPAEDISM Wouter Van Acker (Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles) \u2013 wouter.van.acker@ulb.ac.be Abstract Paul Otlet\u2019s exploration of the idea to record information in separate chunks or units according to the \u2018monographic principle\u2019 has provoked considerable interest in information history for the way in which it resonates with the present tendency … Continuer la lecture de Paper #19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isko-france.asso.fr\/colloque2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isko-france.asso.fr\/colloque2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isko-france.asso.fr\/colloque2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isko-france.asso.fr\/colloque2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isko-france.asso.fr\/colloque2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.isko-france.asso.fr\/colloque2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"http:\/\/www.isko-france.asso.fr\/colloque2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isko-france.asso.fr\/colloque2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CONSTITUANTS ET ANTINOMIES DE L’ENCYCLOP\u00c9DISME POSITIVISTE DE PAUL OTLET<\/h5>\n