The Making of the Humanities, Volume III: The Modern Humanities

book: The Making of the Humanities, Volume III

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2014

The Making of the Humanities, Volume III

The Modern Humanities

Edited by: Rens Bod , Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048518449

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About this book

Volume III in the first comparative history of the humanities, focusing on the period 1850-2000.

Author / Editor information

Bod Rens :

Rens Bod is Vici-Laureate and Full Professor in Computational Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. Books: Beyond Grammar (CSLI/Cambridge University Press), Probabilistic Linguistics (MIT Press), Data-Oriented Parsing (University of Chicago Press), A New History of the Humanities (Oxford University Press).Maat Jaap :

Jaap Maat is Professor in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Books: Philosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century: Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz (Synthese Historical Library, Kluwer, 2004), George Dalgarno on Universal Language (Oxford University Press, 2001).Weststeijn Thijs :

Thijs Weststeijn is a researcher and lecturer at the department of Art History of the University of Amsterdam.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	7
Introduction The Making of the Modern Humanities Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn Open Access Download PDF	13
I The Humanities and the Sciences
1.1. Objectivity and Impartiality Epistemic Virtues in the Humanities Lorraine Daston Open Access Download PDF	27
1.2. The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century Not Separate Yet Unequal? H. Floris Cohen Open Access Download PDF	43
1.3. The Interaction between Sciences and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Materialism A Case Study on Jacob Moleschott’s Popularizing Work and Political Activity Laura Meneghello Open Access Download PDF	53
1.4. The Best Story of the World Theology, Geology, and Philip Henry Gosse’s Omphalos Virginia Richter Open Access Download PDF	65
II The Science of Language
2.1. The Wolf in Itself The Uses of Enchantment in the Development of Modern Linguistics John E. Joseph Open Access Download PDF	81
2.2. Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics The Rise and Fall of Marr’s Japhetic Theory Michiel Leezenberg Open Access Download PDF	97
2.3. Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor- Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian Language1 László Marácz Open Access Download PDF	113
III Writing History
3.1. A Domestic Culture The Mise-en-scène of Modern Historiography Jo Tollebeek Open Access Download PDF	129
3.2. History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular A Nineteenth-Century Paradox Marita Mathijsen Open Access Download PDF	145
3.3. The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline Austrian Scholarly Periodicals, 1840-1900 Christine Ottner Open Access Download PDF	157
3.4. Manuals on Historical Method A Genre of Polemical Reflection on the Aims of Science Herman Paul Open Access Download PDF	171
3.5. The Peculiar Maturation of the History of Science Bart Karstens Open Access Download PDF	183
IV Classical Studies and Philology
4.1. Quellenforschung Glenn W. Most Open Access Download PDF	207
4.2. History of Religions in the Making Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and the ‘Oriental Religions’ Eline Scheerlinck Open Access Download PDF	219
4.3. ‘Big Science’ in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of Antiquity Annett e M. Baertschi Open Access Download PDF	233
4.4. New Philology and Ancient Editors Some Dynamics of Textual Criticism Jacqueline Klooster Open Access Download PDF	251
4.5. What Books Are Made of Scholarship and Intertextuality in the History of the Humanities Floris Solleveld Open Access Download PDF	265
V Literary and Theater Studies
5.1. Furio Jesi and the Culture of the Right Ingrid D. Rowland Open Access Download PDF	283
5.2 Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950 A Dutch Case Study Ton van Kalmthout Open Access Download PDF	299
5.3. Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates The Scientific Status of Interdisciplinary-Oriented Research Chiara Maria Buglioni Open Access Download PDF	313
VI Art History and Archeology
6.1. Embracing World Art Art History’s Universal History and the Making of Image Studies Birgit Mersmann Open Access Download PDF	329
6.2 .Generic Classification and Habitual Subject Matter Adi Efal Open Access Download PDF	345
6.3. The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and the Making of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929 José María Lanzarote-Guiral Open Access Download PDF	359
VII Musicology and Aesthetics
7.1. Between Sciences and Humanities Aesthetics and the Eighteenth-Century ‘Science of Man Maria Semi Open Access Download PDF	379
7.2. Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds Stumpf, Hornbostel, and Comparative Musicology in Berlin Riccardo Martinelli Open Access Download PDF	391
7.3. The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of Art History Pictures as Sources and Interpreters of Musical History Alexis Ruccius Open Access Download PDF	403
VIII East and West
8.1. The Making of Oriental Studies Its Transnational and Transatlantic Past Steffi Marung and Katja Naumann Open Access Download PDF	415
8.2. The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s Karl With (1891-1980) and the Problem of Gandhara Julia Orell Open Access Download PDF	431
8.3. Cross-Cultural Epistemology How European Sinology Became the Bridge to China’s Modern Humanities Perry Johansson Open Access Download PDF	449
IX Information Science and Digital Humanities
9.1. Historical Roots of Information Sciences and the Making of E-Humanities Charles van den Heuvel Open Access Download PDF	465
9.2. Toward a Humanities of the Digital? Reading Search Engines as a Concordance Johanna Sprondel Open Access Download PDF	479
9.3. A Database, Nationalist Scholarship, and Materialist Epistemology in Netherlandish Philology The Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta from Paper to OPAC, 1895-1995 Jan Rock Open Access Download PDF	495
9.4. Clio’s Talkative Daughter Goes Digital The Interplay between Technology and Oral Accounts as Historical Data Stef Scagliola and Franciska de Jong Open Access Download PDF	511
9.5. The Humanities’ New Methods A Reconnaissance Mission Jan-Willem Romeijn Open Access Download PDF	527
X Philosophy and the Humanities
10.1. Making the Humanities Scientific Brentano’s Project of Philosophy as Science Carlo Ierna Open Access Download PDF	543
10.2. The Weimar Origins of Political Theory A Humanities Interdiscipline David L. Marshall Open Access Download PDF	555
XI The Humanities and the Social Sciences
11.1. Explaining Verstehen Max Weber’s Views on Explanation in the Humanities Jeroen Bouterse Open Access Download PDF	569
11.2. Discovering Sexuality The Status of Literature as Evidence Robert Deam Tobin Open Access Download PDF	583
11.3. The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in the Long Struggle for a Humanistic Sociology Marinus Ossewaarde Open Access Download PDF	597
11.4. Sociology and the Proliferation of Knowledge La Condition Humaine Bram Kempers Open Access Download PDF	609
11.5. Inhumanity in the Humanities On a Rare Consensus in the Human Sciences Abram de Swaan Open Access Download PDF	627
XII The Humanities in Society
12.1. The Making and Persisting of Modern German Humanities Balancing Acts between Autonomy and Social Relevance Vincent Gengnagel and Julian Hamann Open Access Download PDF	641
12.2. Critique and Theory in the History of the Modern Humanities Paul Jay Open Access Download PDF	655
Epilogue Toward a History of Western Knowledges Sketching Together the Histories of the Humanities and the Natural Sciences John V. Pickstone Open Access Download PDF	667
About the Authors Open Access Download PDF	687
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	699
Index Open Access Download PDF	703

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 695
Illustrations
- Other: 25 halftones
Keywords: Humanities; History; Science; Twentieth Century

eBook

Published: September 12, 2014
ISBN: 9789048518449