TY - JOUR TI - Seeing a Specialist: the Humanities as Academic Disciplines AU - Collini, Stefan T2 - Past & Present AB - [Review article on James Turner's Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities. From beginning of Collini's review:] The humanities form a relatively small part of the modern research university, but they bulk very large in all discussions about the ‘idea’ or ‘purpose’ or ‘future’ of universities. This may not simply be because those who dilate on these matters are drawn disproportionately from humanities disciplines. It may also be because the discourse about the humanities has become a locus (and in some respects a placeholder) for wider anxieties about changing relations between culture and democracy, and between society and economy, as well as anxieties about the potentially damaging effects of professionalization and specialization. These anxieties have real objects as well as, like all anxieties, their exaggerated or phantasmatic features, and it is not always easy to distinguish between them. It is certainly true that, if we are to talk intelligently about the future of higher education in the twenty-first century,... DA - 2015/// PY - 2015 DO - 10.1093/pastj/gtv029 DP - Crossref VL - 229 IS - 1 SP - 271 EP - 281 LA - en SN - 0031-2746, 1477-464X ST - Seeing a Specialist UR - https://academic.oup.com/past/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtv029 Y2 - 2019/02/09/08:24:00 KW - History of humanities KW - Humanities ER -