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1 online resource (648 pages) |
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polychrome |
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Contains papers presented at a conference held 2012, Rome. |
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This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Lorraine Daston, John Joseph, Glenn Most, John Pickstone and Jo Tollebeek, survey the rise of the humanities in interaction with the natural and social sciences, offering new perspectives on the interaction between disciplines in Europe and Asia and new insights generated by digital humanities. |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Bod, Rens / Maat, Jaap / Weststeijn, Thijs -- I The Humanities and the Sciences -- 1.1. Objectivity and Impartiality / Daston, Lorraine -- 1.2. The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century / Cohen, H. Floris -- 1.3. The Interaction between Sciences and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Materialism / Meneghello, Laura -- 1.4. The Best Story of the World / Richter, Virginia -- II The Science of Language -- 2.1. The Wolf in Itself / Joseph, John E. -- 2.2. Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics / Leezenberg, Michiel -- 2.3. Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor- Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian Language1 / Marácz, László -- III Writing History -- 3.1. A Domestic Culture / Tollebeek, Jo -- 3.2. History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular / Mathijsen, Marita -- 3.3. The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline / Ottner, Christine -- 3.4. Manuals on Historical Method / Paul, Herman -- 3.5. The Peculiar Maturation of the History of Science / Karstens, Bart -- IV Classical Studies and Philology -- 4.1. Quellenforschung / Most, Glenn W. -- 4.2. History of Religions in the Making / Scheerlinck, Eline -- 4.3. 'Big Science' in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of Antiquity / Baertschi, Annett e M. -- 4.4. New Philology and Ancient Editors / Klooster, Jacqueline -- 4.5. What Books Are Made of / Solleveld, Floris -- V Literary and Theater Studies -- 5.1. Furio Jesi and the Culture of the Right / Rowland, Ingrid D. -- 5.2 Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950 / Kalmthout, Ton van -- 5.3. Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates / Buglioni, Chiara Maria -- VI Art History and Archeology -- 6.1. Embracing World Art / Mersmann, Birgit -- 6.2 .Generic Classification and Habitual Subject Matter / Efal, Adi -- 6.3. The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and the Making of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929 / Lanzarote-Guiral, José María -- VII Musicology and Aesthetics -- 7.1. Between Sciences and Humanities / Semi, Maria -- 7.2. Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds / Martinelli, Riccardo -- 7.3. The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of Art History / Ruccius, Alexis -- VIII East and West -- 8.1. The Making of Oriental Studies / Marung, Steffi / Naumann, Katja -- 8.2. The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s / Orell, Julia -- 8.3. Cross-Cultural Epistemology / Johansson, Perry -- IX Information Science and Digital Humanities -- 9.1. Historical Roots of Information Sciences and the Making of E-Humanities / Heuvel, Charles van den -- 9.2. Toward a Humanities of the Digital? / Sprondel, Johanna -- 9.3. A Database, Nationalist Scholarship, and Materialist Epistemology in Netherlandish Philology / Rock, Jan -- 9.4. Clio's Talkative Daughter Goes Digital / Scagliola, Stef / Jong, Franciska de -- 9.5. The Humanities' New Methods / Romeijn, Jan-Willem -- X Philosophy and the Humanities -- 10.1. Making the Humanities Scientific / Ierna, Carlo -- 10.2. The Weimar Origins of Political Theory / Marshall, David L. -- XI The Humanities and the Social Sciences -- 11.1. Explaining Verstehen / Bouterse, Jeroen -- 11.2. Discovering Sexuality / Tobin, Robert Deam -- 11.3. The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in the Long Struggle for a Humanistic Sociology / Ossewaarde, Marinus -- 11.4. Sociology and the Proliferation of Knowledge / Kempers, Bram -- 11.5. Inhumanity in the Humanities / Swaan, Abram de -- XII The Humanities in Society -- 12.1. The Making and Persisting of Modern German Humanities / Gengnagel, Vincent / Hamann, Julian -- 12.2. Critique and Theory in the History of the Modern Humanities / Jay, Paul -- Epilogue / Pickstone, John V. -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Index. |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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Humanities -- Congresses.
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Humanities -- Congresses. |
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Humanities -- Comparative method -- Congresses.
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Humanities. |
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Humanities -- Research -- Congresses.
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Humanities -- Research. |
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Bod, Rens, 1965- editor.
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Maat, Jaap, editor.
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Weststeijn, Thijs, editor.
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Making of the humanities. Volume 3, The modern humanities |
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Modern humanities |
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Print version: Making of the humanities. Vol. 3. The modern humanities. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2014 9789089645166 (OCoLC)881214252 |
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9789048518449 (electronic book) |
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904851844X (electronic book) |
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9789089645166 |
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9089645160 |
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