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Short summary of the lecture:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe late nineteenth century was a period in which academic disciplines began to form and professionalize themselves in modern research universities. Like many disciplines during this period, literary studies (Literaturwissenschaft<\/em>) attempted to establish itself by arguing that its methods\u00a0were\u00a0\u2018scientific\u2019 or wissenschaftlich<\/em>. But here the key term in the debate \u2013 that of \u2018science\u2019 (Wissenschaft<\/em>) \u2013 was a contested one, and was\u00a0defined\u00a0in different ways, in different cultural contexts,\u00a0by different protagonists in the field. In this paper, I will attempt to show that these nineteenth-century debates on the \u2018scientific\u2019 nature of literary studies bear a striking similarity to present day discussions. This is so because \u2013 especially in the UK system \u2013 the humanities continue to be assessed and funded according to models predominantly derived from research in the natural sciences; models which favour a linear conception of objective scientific progress and which valorise quantifiable impact upon society. This paper will offer an overview of this subject in relation to British and German intellectual history, as part of an introduction to a larger monograph project. Some of the better-known thinkers treated will include Matthew Arnold, Thomas Henry Huxley, Wilhelm Dilthey and Wilhelm Scherer.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Afbeelding: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) <\/strong>balancing between poetry and philosophy\u00a0<\/strong>by Frederick Waddy, 1872<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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