Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:25:15 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: disciplines
Any references to articles or books touching on the history of academic
disciplines would be most welcome. I am specifically interested in the
socio-political as well as intellectual conditions under which the modern
academic disciplines were formed, e.g. English and anthropology. English, I
have heard, was the subject of debate at Oxford about a century ago. Have
there been any arguments e.g. for and against bibliography as a discipline?
What about art history, which must have been viewed by some as deeply
suspect because of its links to art-appreciation and simple collecting. I
would guess that similar suspicions would have been voiced about
anthropology and archaeology, which even today attracts amateurs, gifted and
otherwise. Are there any particularly notable cases in which a leading
scholar wrote a manifesto establishing the credibility of a new discipline?
Thanks for any leads.
Yours,
WM
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