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The role that the humanities plays in the academic as well as the intellectual life of Western societies has been debated and contested since the Prussian educational reformer Wilhelm von Humboldt in the Enlightenment. The present collection looks at the complexity and contradictions within this debate, especially on the questions of race and the humanities. The antecedents to this debate are well outlined in the present volume. But this debate is best examined within the evolving disciplines in the humanities since the end of the nineteenth century. The question of authority and race are linked and this has rarely been as well documented as in the present collection.
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Gilman, S.L. (2017). Afterword. In: Morris-Reich, A., Rupnow, D. (eds) Ideas of 'Race' in the History of the Humanities. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49953-6_13
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