History and Philosophy of the Humanities : An Introduction

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The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fields of study have anything in common that distinguishes them from, say, physics or sociology? The tripartite division between the natural sciences, the...

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Main Authors: Leezenberg, Michiel (Author, Translator), De Vries, Gerard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Humanities > Philosophy.
Humanities.
EDUCATION > Teaching Methods & Materials > Arts & Humanities.
Humanities > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The birth of the modern natural sciences
  • Logical empiricism and critical rationalism
  • Historicizing the philosophy of science
  • The birth of the modern humanities
  • Developing new disciplines
  • Between hermeneutics and the natural sciences
  • Critical theory
  • Positivism and structuralism
  • The practice turn
  • Critique and modernity
  • Gender, sex and sexuality
  • Postcolonialism.

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