Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle /

Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle / / ed. by Joseph Valente, Amanda Anderson.

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 q...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Amanda,
Buzard, James,
Goodlad, Lauren M. E.,
Greenfeld, Liah,
Guillory, John,
Joyce, Simon,
Kuklick, Henrika,
Lane, Christopher,
Nunokawa, Jeff,
Plotnitsky, Arkady,
Strenski, Ivan,
Valente, Joseph,
Viswanathan, Gauri,
Vrettos, Athena,
HerausgeberIn:
Anderson, Amanda,
Valente, Joseph,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2002
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Discipline and Freedom
  • PART I. Disciplinary Formations
  • Chapter 1. Literary Study and the Modern System of the Disciplines
  • Chapter 2. Disciplinary and Radicality: Quantum Theory and Nonclassical Thought at the Fin de Siecle, and as Philosophy of the Future
  • PART II. Disciplines and Professionalism
  • Chapter 3. How Economics Became a Science: A Surprising Career of a Model Discipline
  • Chapter 4. Professional Status and the Moral Order
  • Chapter 5. Durkheim, Disciplinarity, and the "Sciences Religieuses"
  • PART III. Disciplines of the Self
  • Chapter 6. Subjecting English and the Question of Representation
  • Chapter 7. Dying Twice: Victorian Theories of Deja Vu
  • Chapter 8. Oscar Wilde, Erving Goffman, and the Social Body Beautiful
  • PART IV. Discipline and the State
  • Chapter 9. Character and Pastorship in Two British "Sociological" Traditions: Organized Charity, Fabian Socialism, and the Invention of New Liberalism
  • Chapter 10. Victorian Continuities: Early British Sociology and the Welfare of the State
  • PART V. Disciplinary Contests and the Present Horizon
  • Chapter 11. The Arnoldian Ideal, or Culture Studies and the Problem of Nothingness
  • Chapter 12. Notes on the Defenestration of Culture
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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