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- Hammar, Isak
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Klassisk karaktär. Den moraliska samhällsnyttan av klassiska studier, ca 1807–1828
- 2017
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Ingår i: Historisk Tidskrift. - 0345-469X. ; 137:4, s. 607-639
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- I denna uppsats undersöks sambandet mellan klassiska studier och moralisk fostranunder 1800-talets tre första decennier. Utifrån en genomgång av reformmaterial,debattryck och artiklar spåras argument om antikstudiets samhällsnytta. Återkommande framhölls dess betydelse för att utveckla karaktärsdrag som manlighet, fosterlandskärlek och pliktuppfyllande i debatten. Klassiska språk och antik litteratur ansågs därigenom skapa arbetsamma medborgare och ädla och självständiga ämbetsmän. Analysen visar att frågan om ungdomens moral var en viktig del av konflikten om skolan och att de klassiska studierna försvarades och angreps utifrån deras funktion som medel för bildning och fostran.
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- Hammar, Isak, et al.
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Futures of the History of the Humanities : An Introduction
- 2023
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Ingår i: History of Humanities. - : University of Chicago Press. - 2379-3163 .- 2379-3171. ; 8:2, s. 177-187
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last decade, scholarly attention has turned to the humanities’ collective past with renewed energy and sense of purpose. As a result, a new field of research, the history of the humanities, has crystalized and received broad international attention. In this forum, we take a special interest in the question of where the history of the humanities is heading. And where do we want it to go? In order to fuel discussion, six scholars have been invited to contribute their perspectives on what the future holds for the field. In our introduction, we frame these contributions by outlining the origins, current state, and potential trajectories of the new (or possibly reformed) field of research. Summarizing the ambitions of the field as well as its transdisciplinary links and influences, we reflect on why it has emerged as well as consider the larger implications for the humanities as a whole. It is argued that although the full potential of the history of the humanities is far from being reached, the very concept has functioned as an integrative platform, opening up new lines of inquiry within a larger framework. Nevertheless, as the contributions to this forum collectively make evident, there are also a number of challenges that the history of the humanities will face going forward.
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- Hammar, Isak, et al.
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Sverige måste värna den språkliga kompetensen
- 2020
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Ingår i: Göteborgs-Posten. - 1103-9345.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- På senare tid har betydelsen av språk kommit att debatteras med stor iver i offentligheten, inte minst frågan om svenskans ställning i förskola, grundskola och gymnasium. Vikten av en välfungerande språkundervisning gäller hela utbildningskedjan och inte minst för högskolan, skriver bland andra Isak Hammar, fil. dr i historia och verksamhetsledare för tankesmedjan Humtank.
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- Hammar, Isak
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Vetenskapliga tidskrifter – ett lömskt problem för humaniora
- 2022
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Ingår i: Scandia. - : Scandia: Tidskrift for historisk forskning, Lund University. - 0036-5483. ; 88:2, s. 339-352
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The question of how to fund Swedish academic journals such as Scandia has become a wicked problem, not only for history but also for the humanities as a whole. This issue is confounded by the difficulty in terms of categorizing these journals and their funding needs and further complicated by the global movement towards open access. For the humanities, the issue of how to fund these journals is of great concern mainly due to a more pluralistic approach to publishing, where not only high-impact journals but also monographs, edited volumes and essays aimed at multiple audiences are still considered prestigious and relevant for society as a whole. At the same time, these journals are not necessarily perceived as relevant by the rest of the scientific community. The main reason is that, even though traces of more traditional forms of publishing can still be found in both the social and the natural sciences, a uniform publishing ideal is dominant in most disciplines and most prestigious outlets are owned by international publishing houses. Complicating matters further, publishing practices in the humanities are not only changing rapidly but vary between and within disciplines, generations and even universities.Despite the fact that this problem has been recognized both internationally and in Sweden, a solution has remained elusive, causing frustration among researchers and editors. This essay argues that the first step is to view the question of funding as embedded in both local and global processes and that in order to find a sustainable model, several stakeholders need to take responsibility and collaborate at the national level. An important argument for sharing responsibility between and across departments, disciplines, funders and, lastly, the government is that Swedish journals are not only part of the ecosystem of prestige within academia but also serve as an infrastructure for authoritative knowledge aimed at the public sphere.
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- Hammar, Isak
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Det ständiga fallet : Romarrikets fall som politisk resurs i samtiden.
- 2015
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Ingår i: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 0039-0747. ; 117:3, s. 451-468
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article discusses the political use of the fall of the Roman empire and in particular the way this historical motif has been utilized in environmental debates and in US political culture. It is furthermore argued that the historiography of the fall of the Roman empire bears witness to the ideological and existential contexts of specific explanations to why Rome fell.
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- Hammar, Isak
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From Germany with Love : Circulating Formale Bildung in the Early Nineteenth Century
- 2021
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Ingår i: History of Humanities. - : University of Chicago Press. - 2379-3163 .- 2379-3171. ; 6:2, s. 603-615
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article traces the circulation of the pedagogical notion of formale Bildung from Germany to Sweden during the first decades of the nineteenth century. At that time, educators and scholars agreed that the goal of secondary education was not to provide practical knowledge, but to train the mind and cultivate moral character. This notion, formulated in full by Friedrich Gedike in the late eighteenth century, proved resilient and shaped Swedish educational policies for much of the century. Yet Gedike was never identified as the source, not by his contemporaries nor by later historians. Moreover, the questions of how, when and why this knowledge appeared in Sweden and how it became part of a general consensus have never been explored. In this essay, it is argued that an important node of circulation between Germany and Sweden was influential educator Carl Ulric Broocman and that the concept of circulation offers a means of revealing previously obscured patterns of knowledge.
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- Hammar, Isak, et al.
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Introduction : The Circulation of Knowledge and the History of Humanities
- 2021
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Ingår i: History of Humanities. - : University of Chicago Press. - 2379-3163 .- 2379-3171. ; 6:2, s. 595-602
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The term “history of knowledge” has gained traction in recent years. This forum section seeks to explore a prominent concept in this new field—circulation—as well as to demonstrate the value of studying knowledge circulation for the history of humanities. While the study of the transmission of knowledge has been pursued in adjacent fields, such as the history of science or media studies, it is argued that circulation of knowledge has the capacity not only to build on existing scholarship but also to combine and galvanize previous and future efforts. Specifically, we believe that the interaction between the humanities and other forms of knowledge—in particular, natural science—can be fruitfully explored with a focus on how knowledge circulates. Detailed historical studies of how knowledge circulates across the divide between “the two cultures” could also be instrumental in fusing the history of humanities and the history of science. Discussing both possibilities and challenges of studying knowledge circulation, this introduction points to a set of valuable questions that probe how the knowledge of humanists has been mobilized, negotiated, contested, downplayed, and forgotten in its historical settings.
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