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Disciplinarity at the fin de siecle / edited by Amanda Anderson and Joseph Valente.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc--19th century.
- English literature.
- Universities and colleges--Curricula--Great Britain.
- Universities and colleges.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Contemporary celebrations of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences often harbor a distrust of traditional disciplines, which are seen as at best narrow and unimaginative, and at worst complicit in larger forms of power and policing. Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle questions these assumptions by examining, for the first time, in so sustained a manner, the rise of a select number of academic disciplines in a historical perspective. This collection of twelve essays focuses on the late Victorian era in Great Britain but also on Germany, France, and America in the same formative period. The contributors--James Buzard, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Liah Greenfeld, John Guillory, Simon Joyce, Henrika Kuklick, Christopher Lane, Jeff Nunokawa, Arkady Plotnitsky, Ivan Strenski, Athena Vrettos, and Gauri Viswanathan--examine the genealogy of various fields including English, sociology, economics, psychology, and quantum physics. Together with the editors' cogent introduction, they challenge the story of disciplinary formation as solely one of consolidation, constraint, and ideological justification. Addressing a broad range of issues--disciplinary formations, disciplinarity and professionalism, disciplines of the self, discipline and the state, and current disciplinary debates--the book aims to dislodge what the editors call the "comfortable pessimism" that too readily assimilates disciplines to techniques of management or control. It advances considerably the effort to more fully comprehend the complex legacy of the human sciences.
- Contents:
- Discipline and freedom / Amanda Anderson and Joseph Valente
- Literary study and the modern system of the disciplines / John Guillory
- Disciplinarity and radicality: quantum theory and nonclassical thought at the Fin de Siecle, and as philosophy of the future / Arkady Plotnitsky
- How economics became a science: a surprising career of a model discipline / Liah Greenfeld
- Professional status and the moral order / Henrika Kuklick
- Durkheim, disciplinarity, and the "sciences religieuses" / Ivan Strenski
- Subjecting English and the question of representation / Gauri Viswanathan
- Dying twice: Victorian theories of dejà vu / Athena Vrettos
- Oscar Wilde, Erving Goffman, and the social body beautiful / Jeff Nunokawa
- Character and pastorship in two British "sociological" traditions: organized charity, Fabian socialism, and the invention of new liberalism / Lauren M.E. Goodlad
- Victorian continuities: early British sociology and the welfare of the state / Simon Joyce
- The Arnoldian ideal, or culture studies and the problem of nothingness / Christopher Lane
- Notes on the defenestration of culture / James Buzard.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691089621
- 0691089620
- 9780691227559
- 0691227551
- OCLC:
- 1241256137
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