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The Making of the Humanities: Volume 1 - Early Modern Europe book cover

1st Edition

The Making of the Humanities Volume 1 - Early Modern Europe

Edited By Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, Thijs Weststeijn Copyright 2010
400 Pages
by Routledge

This book is the first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities. Specialists in philology, musicology, art history, linguistics, literary theory, and other disciplines highlight the intertwining of the various fields and their impact on the sciences. This first volume in the series The Making of the Humanities focuses on the early modern period. Different... Read more
Introduction: Historiography of the Humanities, I. The Humanities versus the Sciences, II. The Visual Arts as Liberal Arts, III. Humanism and Heresy, IV. Language and Poetics, V. Linguists and Logicians, VI. Philology and Philosophy, VII. The History of History, Framing a New Mode of Historical Experience, Philosophy’s Shadow, Contributors, List of Figures, Index

Biography

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

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