The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9463728864 ISBN 13 : 9789463728867

Editeur : Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Anders Ekström is professor of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. He has published broadly on modern cultural, intellectual and media history and theory. Among recent publications is Times of History, Times of Nature: Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge (Berghahn Books, 2022; with Staffan Bergwik). His current research is focused on two areas: the history of publicness, and cultural processes of temporalization in the context of climate change.

Hampus Östh Gustafsson is a researcher at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, currently engaged in a project on collegiality and history of universities. His doctoral thesis concerned the legitimacy of the humanities in twentieth-century Sweden. Recent publications include articles in History of Humanities and History of Education Review.

Isak Hammar is associate professor at the Department of History, Stock_x0002_holm University. His research focuses on the history of humanities, and particularly on the relationship between the humanities and the natural sciences during the nineteenth century in Scandinavia. Recent publications include "Classical Nature: Natural History, Classical Humanism and the Value of Knowledge in Sweden, 1800-1850" in Journal for the History of Knowledge (2021).Contact: isak.hammar@historia.su.se

Martin Jansson is a PhD student at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University. His research interests include media history and the interplay between temporalities and historiography. His disserta_x0002_tion examines temporal dimensions of translation and the relationship between perceived historical transitions and language standardizations in late nineteenth-century Sweden. Contact: martin.jansson@idehist.uu.se

Joakim Landahl is professor of Education at Stockholm University where he leads the research group "History of Education and Sociology of Education." Currently he works in two projects on the history of educational research and one project on the history of the pupil movement. His latest book is Moderna pedagogiska utopier (Södertörns högskola, 2021, co-edited with Anders Burman and Daniel Lövheim). Contact: joakim.landahl@edu.su.se

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9463728864
• ISBN 13: 9789463728867
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 294
• Éditeur: Ekström Anders, Östh Gustafsson Hampus
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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