TY - JOUR N2 - This article deals with the problem of the knowledge’s utility. This issue is considered from three perspectives. The dualistic perspective is based on the two-component structure: knowledge–reality; the subject–the object. In this regard, the knowledge’s utility is measured by the measure of the power that can be obtained over the world. From the monistic perspective knowledge is useful if it allows the internal improvement of the bearer of the knowledge. Knowledge in terms of the emergent system arises in the fluid cognitive relationship between components of changing system. Relations between the system (whole) and units (part of ) are variable and undetermined by the specificity of the individual components which are also reciprocal and mutually forming. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109543/PDF-MASTER/4%20WernerW.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109543 PY - 2013 EP - 162 KW - knowledge KW - system KW - history KW - culture KW - emergency A1 - Werner, Wiktor PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział PAN w Krakowie PB - Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego VL - vol. 43 English-German version DA - 2013 T1 - The Utility of Knowledge: Between Power Over the World and Part of the Emergent System SP - 151 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109543 T2 - Historyka Studia Metodologiczne ER -