The Making of the Humanities, Volume III : The Modern Humanities / ed. by Rens Bod, Thijs Weststeijn, Jaap Maat.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I The Humanities and the Sciences -- 1.1. Objectivity and Impartiality -- 1.2. The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century -- 1.3. The Interaction between Sciences and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Materialism -- 1.4. The Best Story of the World -- II The Science of Language -- 2.1. The Wolf in Itself -- 2.2. Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics -- 2.3. Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor- Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian Language1 -- III Writing History -- 3.1. A Domestic Culture -- 3.2. History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular -- 3.3. The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline -- 3.4. Manuals on Historical Method -- 3.5. The Peculiar Maturation of the History of Science -- IV Classical Studies and Philology -- 4.1. Quellenforschung -- 4.2. History of Religions in the Making -- 4.3. 'Big Science' in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of Antiquity -- 4.4. New Philology and Ancient Editors -- 4.5. What Books Are Made of -- V Literary and Theater Studies -- 5.1. Furio Jesi and the Culture of the Right -- 5.2 Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950 -- 5.3. Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates -- VI Art History and Archeology -- 6.1. Embracing World Art -- 6.2 .Generic Classification and Habitual Subject Matter -- 6.3. The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and the Making of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929 -- VII Musicology and Aesthetics -- 7.1. Between Sciences and Humanities -- 7.2. Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds -- 7.3. The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of Art History -- VIII East and West -- 8.1. The Making of Oriental Studies -- 8.2. The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s -- 8.3. Cross-Cultural Epistemology -- IX Information Science and Digital Humanities -- 9.1. Historical Roots of Information Sciences and the Making of E-Humanities -- 9.2. Toward a Humanities of the Digital? -- 9.3. A Database, Nationalist Scholarship, and Materialist Epistemology in Netherlandish Philology -- 9.4. Clio's Talkative Daughter Goes Digital -- 9.5. The Humanities' New Methods -- X Philosophy and the Humanities -- 10.1. Making the Humanities Scientific -- 10.2. The Weimar Origins of Political Theory -- XI The Humanities and the Social Sciences -- 11.1. Explaining Verstehen -- 11.2. Discovering Sexuality -- 11.3. The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in the Long Struggle for a Humanistic Sociology -- 11.4. Sociology and the Proliferation of Knowledge -- 11.5. Inhumanity in the Humanities -- XII The Humanities in Society -- 12.1. The Making and Persisting of Modern German Humanities -- 12.2. Critique and Theory in the History of the Modern Humanities -- Epilogue -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Index

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This book is the long awaited third volume in a series that provides a comprehensive comparative history of the humanities. This installment turns to the modern period, from 1850 to 2000, bringing together specialists in philology, musicology, art history, linguistics, archaeology, and literary theory to explore the intertwining nature of these various disciplines, and how together they make up the broader investigative project of the humanities.

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