Bøger af Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen

At the end of the 19th century, German historical scholarship had grown to great prominence. Academics around the world imitated their German colleagues. Intellectuals described historical scholarship as a foundation of the modern worldview. To many, the modern age was an 'age of history'. This book investigates how German historical scholarship acquired this status. Modern Historiography in the Making begins with the early Enlightenment, when scholars embraced the study of the past as a modernizing project, undermining dogmatic systems of belief and promoting progressive ideals, such a tolerance, open mindedness and reform-readiness. Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen looks at how this modernizing project remained an important motivation and justification for historical scholarship until the 20th century. Eskildsen successfully argues that German historical scholarship was not, as we have been told since the early 20th century, a product of historicism, but rather of Enlightenment ideals. The book offers this radical revision of the history of scholarship by focusing on practices of research and education. It examines how scholars worked and why they cared. It shows how their efforts forever changed our relationship not only to the past, but also to the world we live in.

De humanistiske videnskaber former verden. De er afgørende for, hvordan vi kommunikerer med hinanden og for hvordan børn bliver undervist. De er til stede i flyet og i bussen, når vi rejser, og i supermarkedet og på nettet, når vi køber ind. Deres indflydelse bemærkes ofte ikke, men de findes overalt. Denne bog undersøger, hvordan videnskaberne går til verden, samtidig med at den viser, hvordan man kan spørge til deres forudsætninger. Bogen gennemgår forskningsprocessen trin for trin, fra afgrænsningen af et problem, til udvælgelsen og analysen af materiale, til skabelsen af et videnskabeligt produkt. Den viser, hvordan der på hvert trin i processen foretages en række valg, der ikke kun påvirker videnskabens blik, men også os der bliver set. Bogen er især henvendt til studerende på de humanistiske uddannelser, som en hjælp til at spørge til videnskaben, men den kan læses af enhver med interesse for samspillet imellem videnskab og virkelighed.