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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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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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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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- Larsson Heidenblad, David
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Environmental History in the 1960s? : An Unsuccessful Research Application and the Circulation of Environmental Knowledge
- 2021
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Ingår i: History of Humanities. - : University of Chicago Press. - 2379-3163 .- 2379-3171. ; 6:2, s. 635-647
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores how the Swedish historian Birgitta Odén (1921–2016) sought to launch an interdisciplinary environmental research program in the late 1960s. Odén’s objective was to make history useful for political decision making, yet the research program never received any substantial funding. This article argues that the analytical concept of circulation of knowledge offers a fruitful way to revisit and contextualize this kind of failed or abandoned knowledge. Based on Birgitta Odén’s bequeathed papers and interviews with her former students, the study covers the years 1967 to 1969, and demonstrates how Oden conceived of environmental history in a period were no such field existed internationally. Moreover, the study illustrates how the humanities was connected to the social sciences, the sciences, the military research complex, and leading politicians in Sweden during the late 1960s.
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- Sörlin, Sverker
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Hybrid Humanities : Integrative Approaches to Humanities Histories
- 2023
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Ingår i: History of Humanities. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press. - 2379-3163 .- 2379-3171. ; 8:2, s. 239-249
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent history has been unusually eventful in the humanities, with harshening polit- q1ical circumstances in some countries but also attempts to carve out new missions andlink the humanities to agendas of relevance on environment, climate, energy, digitalization,migration, and other contemporary challenges. In this context, might therebe cause to review the history of humanities as informed by the ongoing rethinkingof humanities futures? The point of departure of this article is that there are historicalhumanities that actually were not so much “humanities” at all in their own time. Ratherthey were integrative parts of domains such as natural history, field exploration,museums, and collections—a differently embedded version of the humanities thatare now reappearing as an elemental, geo-anthropological project under conceptssuch as the Anthropocene. This history is far from unknown, but it has been less visible,concealed by the historicizing of science, and related intellectual and institutionalhistories, which have de-emphasized their humanities past. This article attempts tomake it more visible as a relevant “deep” history of the reconfigurations of humanitiesthat are emerging in the twenty-first century.
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