LEADER 02751nam 2200421z- 450 001 9910585981003321 005 20231214133051.0 035 $a(CKB)5860000000070623 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90567 035 $a(EXLCZ)995860000000070623 100 $a20202208d2022 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aThe Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge$eThe Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1850-2020 210 $aAmsterdam$cAmsterdam University Press$d2022 215 $a1 electronic resource (274 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in the History of Knowledge 311 $a94-6372-886-4 330 $aThis 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. 517 $aHumanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge 606 $aPhilosophy & theory of education$2bicssc 606 $aEuropean history$2bicssc 606 $aHistory of Western philosophy$2bicssc 610 $ahistory of humanities, politics of knowledge, impact, organization, regimes of legitimacy 615 7$aPhilosophy & theory of education 615 7$aEuropean history 615 7$aHistory of Western philosophy 700 $aEkström$b Anders$4edt$01253918 702 $aÖsth Gustafsson$b Hampus$4edt 702 $aEkström$b Anders$4oth 702 $aÖsth Gustafsson$b Hampus$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910585981003321 996 $aThe Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge$92907760 997 $aUNINA