{"title":"Laura Tack, The Fortune of Gertrud Bing (1892–1964): A Fragmented Memoir of a Phantomlike Muse. Studies in Iconology 16. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. Pp. xvi+109. €42.00.","authors":"Claudia Wedepohl","doi":"10.1086/715966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715966","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36904,"journal":{"name":"History of Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43798235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christiaan Engberts and Herman Paul, eds., Scholarly Personae in the History of Orientalism, 1870–1930. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. 206. €99.00 (cloth).","authors":"Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen","doi":"10.1086/715961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715961","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36904,"journal":{"name":"History of Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44476407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amir Theilhaber, Friedrich Rosen: Orientalist Scholarship and International Politics. Munich: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020. Pp. viii+627. Open access at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110639544.","authors":"Thomas W. Hudgins","doi":"10.1086/715962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715962","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36904,"journal":{"name":"History of Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41415319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dear Editors, I write to correct some factual mischaracterizations of my monograph, Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates, in the recent review by Jaś Elsner. Most specifically, on page 566 of the Fall 2020 issue of this journal, Elsner writes that Schapiro’s “intellectual engagements beyond art history and the theorists that informed it ( like Marx, Freud, Heidegger, Saussure) are not present” in my book. But this is not true. For instance, my book’s eighth chapter, which concerns Schapiro’s famed criticisms of Martin Heidegger, is largely dedicated to Schapiro’s extensive appropriation of the theories of the neurologist Kurt Goldstein, a figure whose clinical research on aphasia remains well outside of art history indeed. And, to choose but one other example, the book’s third chapter dramatically punctuates its explanation of Schapiro’s shifting Marxist commitments by way of his friendship with Whittaker Chambers, that infamous Cold War poster child of anticommunism who was Schapiro’s close friend. Why Elsner overlooks, in fact denies, these and other “intellectual engagements beyond art history” that are fundamental to my book is unclear, though the decision is evidently connected to his lament that I did not paymore attention towhat he calls the “full humanity” of my subject. By this Elsner implies that he wants a full psycho-biography of Schapiro the man. While we could all certainly benefit from a proper biography of Schapiro, as is self-evident frommy book’s title and as I explain explicitly in the introduction, my book is not a biography. Were Elsner to pursue such a project, he might be able to demonstrate some or more of the various speculative and counterfactual hypotheses that he posits about the interrelation between Schapiro’s life and thought. To my knowledge, however, Schapiro had no insight into Emanuel Löwy’s sexuality, and did not link Löwy’s ideas to Freud’s or vice versa. And Schapiro’s drawing of Icarus, which my book publishes and interprets for the first time, likely dates from much later than 1929, as does the vast majority of Schapiro’s archive. The drawing’s color scheme and abstract composition is notably comparable to other modernist treatments of the same theme, for instance, Picasso’s UNESCO mural of 1958.
{"title":"Letter to the Editors","authors":"C. O'donnell","doi":"10.1086/715970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715970","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editors, I write to correct some factual mischaracterizations of my monograph, Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates, in the recent review by Jaś Elsner. Most specifically, on page 566 of the Fall 2020 issue of this journal, Elsner writes that Schapiro’s “intellectual engagements beyond art history and the theorists that informed it ( like Marx, Freud, Heidegger, Saussure) are not present” in my book. But this is not true. For instance, my book’s eighth chapter, which concerns Schapiro’s famed criticisms of Martin Heidegger, is largely dedicated to Schapiro’s extensive appropriation of the theories of the neurologist Kurt Goldstein, a figure whose clinical research on aphasia remains well outside of art history indeed. And, to choose but one other example, the book’s third chapter dramatically punctuates its explanation of Schapiro’s shifting Marxist commitments by way of his friendship with Whittaker Chambers, that infamous Cold War poster child of anticommunism who was Schapiro’s close friend. Why Elsner overlooks, in fact denies, these and other “intellectual engagements beyond art history” that are fundamental to my book is unclear, though the decision is evidently connected to his lament that I did not paymore attention towhat he calls the “full humanity” of my subject. By this Elsner implies that he wants a full psycho-biography of Schapiro the man. While we could all certainly benefit from a proper biography of Schapiro, as is self-evident frommy book’s title and as I explain explicitly in the introduction, my book is not a biography. Were Elsner to pursue such a project, he might be able to demonstrate some or more of the various speculative and counterfactual hypotheses that he posits about the interrelation between Schapiro’s life and thought. To my knowledge, however, Schapiro had no insight into Emanuel Löwy’s sexuality, and did not link Löwy’s ideas to Freud’s or vice versa. And Schapiro’s drawing of Icarus, which my book publishes and interprets for the first time, likely dates from much later than 1929, as does the vast majority of Schapiro’s archive. The drawing’s color scheme and abstract composition is notably comparable to other modernist treatments of the same theme, for instance, Picasso’s UNESCO mural of 1958.","PeriodicalId":36904,"journal":{"name":"History of Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43187978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores how the Swedish historian Birgitta Odén (1921–2016) sought to launch an interdisciplinary environmental research program in the late 1960s. Odén’s objective was to make history useful for political decision making, yet the research program never received any substantial funding. This article argues that the analytical concept of circulation of knowledge offers a fruitful way to revisit and contextualize this kind of failed or abandoned knowledge. Based on Birgitta Odén’s bequeathed papers and interviews with her former students, the study covers the years 1967 to 1969, and demonstrates how Oden conceived of environmental history in a period were no such field existed internationally. Moreover, the study illustrates how the humanities was connected to the social sciences, the sciences, the military research complex, and leading politicians in Sweden during the late 1960s.
{"title":"Environmental History in the 1960s? An Unsuccessful Research Application and the Circulation of Environmental Knowledge","authors":"David Larsson Heidenblad","doi":"10.1086/715944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715944","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how the Swedish historian Birgitta Odén (1921–2016) sought to launch an interdisciplinary environmental research program in the late 1960s. Odén’s objective was to make history useful for political decision making, yet the research program never received any substantial funding. This article argues that the analytical concept of circulation of knowledge offers a fruitful way to revisit and contextualize this kind of failed or abandoned knowledge. Based on Birgitta Odén’s bequeathed papers and interviews with her former students, the study covers the years 1967 to 1969, and demonstrates how Oden conceived of environmental history in a period were no such field existed internationally. Moreover, the study illustrates how the humanities was connected to the social sciences, the sciences, the military research complex, and leading politicians in Sweden during the late 1960s.","PeriodicalId":36904,"journal":{"name":"History of Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49659774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article offers an intellectual history of twentieth-century understandings of the humanities in Australia, with special reference to the problem of their Europeanness. Eurocentric ideologies associated with the term “the humanities” have particular pertinence in Australia, which in this period generally saw itself as a fragment of Europe in the Asia-Pacific. Transformations in the humanities’ methods and approaches have in Australia been bound up with questions of the country’s settler-colonial status and proximity to Asia. The significance of Australia’s geographic location for its intellectual heritage is evident in the changing meanings given to “the humanities” in the programmatic and definitional statements of prominent humanists. In tracing these changes, the article makes a broader methodological case for attention to the historicity of local understandings of “the humanities,” as it is by such an approach that we can most clearly see what the humanities have been and the functions they have served.
{"title":"The Humanities in Australia and the Problem of Europe","authors":"J. Barnes","doi":"10.1086/715940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715940","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers an intellectual history of twentieth-century understandings of the humanities in Australia, with special reference to the problem of their Europeanness. Eurocentric ideologies associated with the term “the humanities” have particular pertinence in Australia, which in this period generally saw itself as a fragment of Europe in the Asia-Pacific. Transformations in the humanities’ methods and approaches have in Australia been bound up with questions of the country’s settler-colonial status and proximity to Asia. The significance of Australia’s geographic location for its intellectual heritage is evident in the changing meanings given to “the humanities” in the programmatic and definitional statements of prominent humanists. In tracing these changes, the article makes a broader methodological case for attention to the historicity of local understandings of “the humanities,” as it is by such an approach that we can most clearly see what the humanities have been and the functions they have served.","PeriodicalId":36904,"journal":{"name":"History of Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48774659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The term “history of knowledge” has gained traction in recent years. This forum section seeks to explore a prominent concept in this new field—circulation—as well as to demonstrate the value of studying knowledge circulation for the history of humanities. While the study of the transmission of knowledge has been pursued in adjacent fields, such as the history of science or media studies, it is argued that circulation of knowledge has the capacity not only to build on existing scholarship but also to combine and galvanize previous and future efforts. Specifically, we believe that the interaction between the humanities and other forms of knowledge—in particular, natural science—can be fruitfully explored with a focus on how knowledge circulates. Detailed historical studies of how knowledge circulates across the divide between “the two cultures” could also be instrumental in fusing the history of humanities and the history of science. Discussing both possibilities and challenges of studying knowledge circulation, this introduction points to a set of valuable questions that probe how the knowledge of humanists has been mobilized, negotiated, contested, downplayed, and forgotten in its historical settings.
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Isak Hammar, Jan Östling","doi":"10.1086/715941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715941","url":null,"abstract":"The term “history of knowledge” has gained traction in recent years. This forum section seeks to explore a prominent concept in this new field—circulation—as well as to demonstrate the value of studying knowledge circulation for the history of humanities. While the study of the transmission of knowledge has been pursued in adjacent fields, such as the history of science or media studies, it is argued that circulation of knowledge has the capacity not only to build on existing scholarship but also to combine and galvanize previous and future efforts. Specifically, we believe that the interaction between the humanities and other forms of knowledge—in particular, natural science—can be fruitfully explored with a focus on how knowledge circulates. Detailed historical studies of how knowledge circulates across the divide between “the two cultures” could also be instrumental in fusing the history of humanities and the history of science. Discussing both possibilities and challenges of studying knowledge circulation, this introduction points to a set of valuable questions that probe how the knowledge of humanists has been mobilized, negotiated, contested, downplayed, and forgotten in its historical settings.","PeriodicalId":36904,"journal":{"name":"History of Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47133918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Rens Bod, Julia Kursell, J. Maat, T. Weststeijn","doi":"10.1086/715862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36904,"journal":{"name":"History of Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44349757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article uses prosopographical methods to map the broad patterns of the geographical, vocational, and social circulation of a cohort of arts students in interwar Australia. In doing so, it sheds light on the lives of a significant but largely neglected category of people who carried humanities knowledge and helped reproduce it. The article reveals both the breadth of professional work undertaken by this cohort and their international and regional entanglements, thereby showing how individuals with humanities training moved into a wide array of knowledge domains. In the process, it identifies sites for further studies and shows that prosopography might offer a valuable method for historians of humanistic knowledge.
{"title":"The Careers of Humanities Students in Interwar Australia","authors":"T. Pietsch, Gabrielle Kemmis","doi":"10.1086/715943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715943","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses prosopographical methods to map the broad patterns of the geographical, vocational, and social circulation of a cohort of arts students in interwar Australia. In doing so, it sheds light on the lives of a significant but largely neglected category of people who carried humanities knowledge and helped reproduce it. The article reveals both the breadth of professional work undertaken by this cohort and their international and regional entanglements, thereby showing how individuals with humanities training moved into a wide array of knowledge domains. In the process, it identifies sites for further studies and shows that prosopography might offer a valuable method for historians of humanistic knowledge.","PeriodicalId":36904,"journal":{"name":"History of Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48625073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article, the concept of generation is studied as a case of the circulation of fundamental concepts between sociology and various disciplines in the humanities. It is argued that this concept underwent a change in meaning as it was transferred into the newly established German discipline of sociology. This change was marked by an increasing spatialization of a concept hitherto mainly temporal in nature. Moving from art history into philosophy of history and then sociology, the concept came to signify a social structure of either experience or an objective structure with economic underpinnings. The article follows the concept through the works and discussions of mainly Wilhelm Pinder, Karl Mannheim, José Ortega y Gasset, and Ernst Bloch.
{"title":"Circulation of Fundamental Concepts","authors":"Karolina Enquist Källgren","doi":"10.1086/715946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715946","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the concept of generation is studied as a case of the circulation of fundamental concepts between sociology and various disciplines in the humanities. It is argued that this concept underwent a change in meaning as it was transferred into the newly established German discipline of sociology. This change was marked by an increasing spatialization of a concept hitherto mainly temporal in nature. Moving from art history into philosophy of history and then sociology, the concept came to signify a social structure of either experience or an objective structure with economic underpinnings. The article follows the concept through the works and discussions of mainly Wilhelm Pinder, Karl Mannheim, José Ortega y Gasset, and Ernst Bloch.","PeriodicalId":36904,"journal":{"name":"History of Humanities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49245217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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