The making of the humanities. / Volume II, : From early modern to modern disciplines / / edited by Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bod, Rens, 1965-; Maat, Jaap,; Weststeijn, Thijs,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (427 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

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 vol...

Table of Contents

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