“Humanities 2000” : Legitimizing Discourses of the Humanities in Public Debate and Research Policy at the Turn of the Century
This chapter analyzes the legitimizing discourse of the humanities in two different public debates in Sweden at the end of the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The first debate concerned the marginalized role of the humanities and their relation to the broader public, while the second was strongly influenced by current research policies, which had a strong focus