The Making of the Humanities
Volume II - From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines
Dit boek onderzoekt de ontwikkelingen in de geesteswetenschappen vóór en na 1800. Er wordt vaak gesteld dat rond 1800 de alfawetenschappen een ‘humanisering’ van hun onderwerpen en methodes ondergingen. The Making of the Humanities Vol. 2 toont echter aan dat het strikte onderscheid tussen mens- en natuurwetenschappen de uitkomst was van een proces dat al in de zeventiende eeuw begon. Als er al sprake was van een revolutie, dan vond deze eerder op een institutioneel dan op een conceptueel niveau plaats. Dit is het tweede deel van de serie gewijd aan de geschiedenis van de geesteswetenschappen.
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Thijs Weststeijn
Thijs Weststeijn is a researcher and lecturer at the department of Art History of the University of Amsterdam.
- Titel
- The Making of the Humanities
- Subtitel
- Volume II - From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines
- Redacteuren
- Rens Bod
- Jaap Maat
- Thijs Weststeijn
- Prijs
- € 78,95 excl. BTW
- ISBN
- 9789089644558
- Uitvoering
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 432
- Taal
- Engels
- Publicatiedatum
- 01 - 10 - 2012
- Afmetingen
- 16 x 24 cm
- Open access
- Download op Open Access Platform
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
Introduction: The Dawn of the Modern Humanities
Rens Bod
Part I. Linguistics and Philology
1. The Rise of Philology: The Comparative Method, the Historicist Turn and the Surreptitious Influence of Giambattista Vico
Joep Leerssen
2. Linguistics ante litteram: Compiling and Transmitting Views on Language Diversity and Relatedness before the Nineteenth Century
Toon van Hal
3. The Rise of General Linguistics as an Academic Discipline: Georg von der Gabelentz as a Co-Founder
Els Elffers
Part II. The Humanities and the Sciences
4. The Mutual Making of Sciences and Humanities: Willebrord Snellius, Jacob Golius, and the Early Modern Entanglement of Mathematics and Philology
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
5. A ‘Human’ Science: Hawkins’s Science of Music
Maria Semi
6. Bopp the Builder. Discipline Formation as Hybridization: The Case of Comparative Linguistics
Bart Karstens
Part III. Writing History and Intellectual History
7. Nineteenth-Century Historicism and its Predecessors: Historical Experience, Historical Ontology and Historical Method
Jacques Bos
9. Fact and Fancy in Nineteenth-Century Historiography and Fiction: The Case of Macaulay and Roidis
Foteini Lika
8. The Humanities as the Stronghold of Freedom: John Milton’s Areopagitica and John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
Hilary Gatti
Part IV. The Impact of the East
10. The Impact on the European Humanities of Early Reports from Catholic Missionaries from China, Tibet and Japan between 1600 and 1700
Gerhard F. Strasser
11. The Middle Kingdom in the Low Countries: Sinology in the Early Modern Netherlands
Thijs Weststeijn
12. The Oriental Origins of Orientalism: The Case of Dimitrie Cantemir
Michiel Leezenberg
Part V. Artworks and Texts
13. The Role of Emotions in the Development of Artistic Theory and the System of Literary Genres
Mats Malm
14. Philology and the History of Art
Adi Efal
Part VI. Literature and Rhetoric
15. Bourgeois versus Aristocratic Models of Scholarship: Medieval Studies at the Académie des Inscriptions, 1701-1751
Alicia C. Montoya
16. Ancients, Moderns and the Gothic in Eighteenth-Century Historiography
Neus Rotger
17. The Afterlife of Rhetoric in Hobbes, Vico and Nietzsche
David L. Marshall
Part VII. Academic Communities
18. The Documents of Feith: The Centralization of the Archive in Nineteenth-Century Historiography
Pieter Huistra
19. Humboldt in Copenhagen: Discipline Formation in the Humanities at the University of Copenhagen in the Nineteenth Century
Claus Møller Jørgensen
20. The Scholarly Self: Ideals of Intellectual Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Leiden
Herman Paul
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Index
Recensies en Artikelen
The book brings to light a very important moment in the development of Western civilization and perhaps one of its last significant contributions to world culture. The material is fascinating, with numerous implications for the broader fields not only of history and sociology of science and universities, but of nationalism and civilization studies as well. The volume is a real contribution to knowledge, extending far beyond the field to which it ostensibly belongs of the history of the humanities. – Liah Greenfeld, Boston University| "The scholarly editors of this volume have wished to open up the route towards a comparative and interdisciplinary history of the humanities ... bringing to the fore the unity of the field of the humanistic sciences at the onset of the modern era, the interconnections between domains of knowledge that are now separated, and the necessity of approaching the history of the humanities over a longer period. - Sandrine Maufroy on The Making of the Humanities Volume 1 in H-Soz-u-Kult
(les éditeurs scientifiques de ce volume ont souhaité ouvrir la voie à une approche comparative et interdisciplinaire de l’histoire des humanités ...on peut leur reconnaître le mérite de mettre en évidence l’unité du champ des sciences humaines au début de l’époque moderne, les liens entre des domaines du savoir aujourd’hui séparés et la nécessité d’envisager l’histoire des sciences humaines dans la longue durée.)
'Few collections of conference proceedings rival the erudite scope of this second installment of a three-part project; the first volume, subtitled Early Modern Europe (CH, Oct'11, 49-0643) appeared in 2011. Originating from a gathering of predominantly European specialists in linguistics, history, mathematics, science, musicology, literature, and other disciplines, the essayists embrace broad topics and those more narrowly defined. Tracing the development of theories, some to their origins in the 17th century, each selection offers innovative perspectives about the precursors of prevailing intellectual movements in the 19th century, with which the volume is primarily concerned. Each of the 19 essays assembled by Bod, Maat, and Weststeijn (all, Univ. of Amsterdam) deserves mention.
Hybridization, a recurrent idea in this compendium, is developed in a compelling essay by Bart Karstens, who challenges specialization as the driving force in the creation of modern disciplines. Michiel Leezenberg, in delineating the career of 18th-century, Ottoman-born Dimitrie Cantemir, shows convincingly the invalidity of the assumption that Western "knowledge traditions" have displaced "local agency" in the treatment of subjects such as Orientalism (Edward Said notwithstanding). This volume and its companions will prove indispensable to understanding the intricate processes that resulted in forming the modern study of the humanities. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty.' -- L.A. Brewer, Georgia Northwestern Technical College. Copyright 2013 American Library Association. [In: Choice. Reviews Online. September 2013]
