The Making of the Humanities: Volume II: From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2013

The Making of the Humanities

Volume II: From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines

Edited by: Rens Bod , Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048517336

Overview
Contents

About this book

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 volume, the editors have selected a series of essays that look at the origins of the humanities and find that long before 1800 the concept of the humanities was already at the fore. The shift around 1800 was thus mostly institutional, not theoretical. The Making of the Humanities traces this new finding through a broad range of disciplines including literary theory, linguistics, art history, and musicology.

Author / Editor information

Rens Bod is professor of computational and digital humanities at the University of Amsterdam. Jaap Maat is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Thijs Weststeijn is a fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Reviews

“Few collections of conference proceedings rival the erudite scope of this second installment of a three-part project . . . 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 . . . This volume and its companions will prove indispensable to understanding the intricate processes that resulted in forming the modern study of the humanities. . . . Highly recommended.”

— Choice

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction: The Dawn of the Modern Humanities Rens Bod Open Access Download PDF	9
I. Linguistics and Philology
The Rise of Philology. The Comparative Method, the Historicist Turn and the Surreptitious Influence of Giambattista Vico Joep Leerssen Open Access Download PDF	23
Linguistics ‘ante litteram’. Compiling and Transmitting Views on the Diversity and Kinship of Languages before the Nineteenth Century Toon Van Hal Open Access Download PDF	37
The Rise of General Linguistics as an Academic Discipline. Georg von der Gabelentz as a Co-Founder Els Elffers Open Access Download PDF	55
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 Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Open Access Download PDF	73
A ‘Human’ Science: Hawkins’s Science of Music Maria Semi Open Access Download PDF	93
Bopp the Builder. Discipline Formation as Hybridization: The Case of Comparative Linguistics Bart Karstens Open Access Download PDF	103
III. Writing History and Intellectual History
Nineteenth-Century Historicism and Its Predecessors: Historical Experience, Historical Ontology and Historical Method Jacques Bos Open Access Download PDF	131
Fact and Fancy in Nineteenth-Century Historiography and Fiction: Th e Case of Macaulay and Roidis Foteini Lika Open Access Download PDF	149
The Humanities as the Stronghold of Freedom: John Milton’s Areopagitica and John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty Hilary Gatti Open Access Download PDF	167
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 Gerhard F. Strasser Open Access Download PDF	185
The Middle Kingdom in the Low Countries: Sinology in the Seventeenth- Century Netherlands Thijs Weststeijn Open Access Download PDF	209
The Oriental Origins of Orientalism: The Case of Dimitrie Cantemir Michiel Leezenberg Open Access Download PDF	243
V. Artworks and Texts
The Role of Emotions in the Development of Artistic Theory and the System of Literary Genres Mats Malm Open Access Download PDF	267
Philology and the History of Art Adi Efal Open Access Download PDF	283
VI. Literature and Rhetoric
Bourgeois versus Aristocratic Models of Scholarship: Medieval Studies at the Académie des Inscriptions, 1701-1751 Alicia C. Montoya Open Access Download PDF	303
Ancients, Moderns and the Gothic in Eighteenth-Century Historiography Neus Rotger Open Access Download PDF	321
The Afterlife of Rhetoric in Hobbes, Vico and Nietzsche David L. Marshall Open Access Download PDF	337
VII. Academic Communities
The Documents of Feith: The Centralization of the Archive in Nineteenth- Century Historiography Pieter Huistra Open Access Download PDF	357
Humboldt in Copenhagen: Discipline Formation in the Humanities at the University of Copenhagen in the Nineteenth Century Claus Møller Jørgensen Open Access Download PDF	377
The Scholarly Self: Ideals of Intellectual Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Leiden Herman Paul Open Access Download PDF	397
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	413
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	419
Index Open Access Download PDF	421

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 427
Illustrations
- Other: 21 halftones

eBook

Published: January 10, 2012
ISBN: 9789048517336