The making of the humanities. Volume II, From early modern to modern disciplines /
While it is clear that around 1800 the humanities as a discipline rose to prominence, it is less clear what the exact nature of this shift in academia was. Was it a sudden revolution caused by a momentary but powerful change in the zeitgeist or the turning point of a much longer process? In this vol...
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Amsterdam :
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2012.
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- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Dawn of the Modern Humanities / Bod, Rens
- I. Linguistics and Philology
- The Rise of Philology. The Comparative Method, the Historicist Turn and the Surreptitious Influence of Giambattista Vico / Leerssen, Joep
- Linguistics 'ante litteram'. Compiling and Transmitting Views on the Diversity and Kinship of Languages before the Nineteenth Century / Hal, Toon Van
- The Rise of General Linguistics as an Academic Discipline. Georg von der Gabelentz as a Co-Founder / Elffers, Els
- II. The Humanities and the Sciences
- The Mutual Making of Sciences and Humanities. Willebrord Snellius, Jacob Golius and the Early Modern Entanglement of Mathematics and Philology / Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan
- A 'Human' Science: Hawkins's Science of Music / Semi, Maria
- Bopp the Builder. Discipline Formation as Hybridization: The Case of Comparative Linguistics / Karstens, Bart
- III. Writing History and Intellectual History
- Nineteenth-Century Historicism and Its Predecessors: Historical Experience, Historical Ontology and Historical Method / Bos, Jacques
- Fact and Fancy in Nineteenth-Century Historiography and Fiction: Th e Case of Macaulay and Roidis / Lika, Foteini
- The Humanities as the Stronghold of Freedom: John Milton's Areopagitica and John Stuart Mill's On Liberty / Gatti, Hilary
- IV. The Impact of the East
- The Impact on the European Humanities of Early Reports from Catholic Missionaries from China, Tibet and Japan between 1600 and 1700 / Strasser, Gerhard F.
- The Middle Kingdom in the Low Countries: Sinology in the Seventeenth- Century Netherlands / Weststeijn, Thijs
- The Oriental Origins of Orientalism: The Case of Dimitrie Cantemir / Leezenberg, Michiel
- V. Artworks and Texts
- The Role of Emotions in the Development of Artistic Theory and the System of Literary Genres / Malm, Mats
- Philology and the History of Art / Efal, Adi
- VI. Literature and Rhetoric
- Bourgeois versus Aristocratic Models of Scholarship: Medieval Studies at the Académie des Inscriptions, 1701-1751 / Montoya, Alicia C.
- Ancients, Moderns and the Gothic in Eighteenth-Century Historiography / Rotger, Neus
- The Afterlife of Rhetoric in Hobbes, Vico and Nietzsche / Marshall, David L.
- VII. Academic Communities
- The Documents of Feith: The Centralization of the Archive in Nineteenth- Century Historiography / Huistra, Pieter
- Humboldt in Copenhagen: Discipline Formation in the Humanities at the University of Copenhagen in the Nineteenth Century / Jørgensen, Claus Møller
- The Scholarly Self: Ideals of Intellectual Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Leiden / Paul, Herman
- Contributors
- List of Figures
- Index.