The humanities and the modern politics of knowledge the impact and organization of the humanities in Sweden, 1850-2020 JSTOR (Organization) text Electronic books. History. ne AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PR 2022 1ST ED. monographic eng remote 1 online resource 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. 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 Humanities Sweden History 19th century Humanities Sweden History 20th century Humanities Sweden History 21st century EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects Humanities Sweden 1800-2099 fast AZ731 001.30711485 9048555027 9789048555024 22573/ctv2sv9001 JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2svjznh YDX 220802 20230103223658.6 in00004636414 eng