| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Studies in the History of Knowledge |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Emerging Disciplinary Divides -- 2 Measuring Up to the Humanities -- 3 Into the Present -- 4 Pedagogy and the Humanities -- 5 Contested Classicism -- Places of the Humanities in the Postwar World -- 6 Gadfly or Guide of Souls? -- 7 Public Arenas of the Humanities -- 8 The Place of Humanities in a World of Science -- Impact, Policy, and Humanities Futures -- 9 Thinking the Human System -- 10 Borderline Humanities -- 11 "Humanities 2000" -- 12 Forging the Integrative Humanities -- Index of names |
| Summary |
This book addresses the shifting status of the humanities through a national case study spanning two centuries. The societal function of the humanities is considered from the flexible perspective of knowledge politics in order to historicize notions of impact and intellectual organization that tend to be taken for granted. The focus on modern Sweden enables an extended but still empirically coherent historical analysis, inviting critical comparisons with the growing literature on the history of the humanities from around the world. In the Swedish case, the humanities were instrumental to the construction of modern societal institutions, political movements, and professional education in the second half of the 19th century, while in the 20th century, the sense of future-making shifted towards science and medicine, and later technology and economy. The very rationale of the humanities was thus put under pressure as their social contract required novel negotiations. Their state and connections to society were nevertheless of a complex and ambiguous character, as is demonstrated by this volume whose contributions explore the many faces and places of the modern humanities |
| Analysis |
history of humanities, politics of knowledge, impact, organization, regimes of legitimacy |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Humanities -- Sweden -- History -- 19th century
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Humanities -- Sweden -- History -- 20th century
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Humanities -- Sweden -- History -- 21st century
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History: theory and methods.
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Philosophy.
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EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects.
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Humanities.
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History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities)
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European history.
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Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge.
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Sweden.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9048555027 |
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9789048555024 |
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