Le projet ès lettres : premiers jalons pour une socio-histoire des docteurs ès lettres
The “ès lettres” project studies and promotes doctoral theses in the humanities undertaken in 19th-century France. Our premise is that, within the higher education system as it was crystallising at the time, the doctorate acquired a specific importance in humanities faculties. It confirmed the candi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Éditions de la Sorbonne
2021-11-01
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| Series: | Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rhsh/6672 |
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| Summary: | The “ès lettres” project studies and promotes doctoral theses in the humanities undertaken in 19th-century France. Our premise is that, within the higher education system as it was crystallising at the time, the doctorate acquired a specific importance in humanities faculties. It confirmed the candidate’s ability to produce new knowledge and, at the same time, served as a barrier and a standard to regulate access to academia itself. The és lettres doctorate thus interfaces between the system of production of academic knowledge and the system of reproduction of intellectual elites, and it can yield insight into the institutionalisation of disciplines. And yet it has been very little explored historiographically, due to a dirth of tools to handle an enormous amount of dispersed documentation. This project aims to gather information on the theses and their authors, and then to digitise the theses and associated documents in order to create an online database. |
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| ISSN: | 1963-1022 |