Projektnummer

0059843

Zusammenfassung

In the history of the humanities, the 19th century is commonly seen as an age of disciplinarization and institutionalization through which modern disciplines emerged and scholarly canons were established. There is, however, a long-neglected side to this: the processes of scholarly forgetting implied by any process of selection and reorganization. Knowledge that did not pass through the 19th-century bottleneck often vanished into obscurity. This project explores the role of scholarly amnesia for the humanities at a turning point in their recent history. In this, the research team not on...