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 momen