À quoi sert l’organisation des sciences ?
Starting from the premise that the organisation of knowledge areas results from specific contingencies, political projects, and the convergence of particular interests, and yet has a profound impact on the knowledge constituted, I examine the supra-disciplinary category of ‘sciences humaines’ [‘huma...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Éditions de la Sorbonne
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rhsh/5286 |
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| Summary: | Starting from the premise that the organisation of knowledge areas results from specific contingencies, political projects, and the convergence of particular interests, and yet has a profound impact on the knowledge constituted, I examine the supra-disciplinary category of ‘sciences humaines’ [‘humanities’]. Often overlooked, but nevertheless powerful, it is a specifically French category that arose in its present sense between the two Wars, and became hegemonic after the Second World War. It achieved this dominance not because it presented a better classificatory system than its rivals between the Wars, but because it was mobilised by a group of prominent academics and politicians, who advocated a humanist, liberal and international conception of knowledge, in a post-war institutional and political French landscape where it happened to flourish. |
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| ISSN: | 1963-1022 |