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

1st Edition

The Making of the Humanities, Volume III The Modern Humanities

Edited By Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, Thijs Weststeijn Copyright 2014
716 Pages
by Routledge

This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, 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.

I. The Humanities and the Sciences, II. The Science of Language, III. Writing History, IV. Classical Studies and Philology, V. Literary and Theatre Studies, VI. Art History and Archaeology, VII. Musicology, VIII. East and West, IX. Information Science and Digital Humanities, X. Philosophy and the Humanities, XI. The Humanities and the Social Sciences, XII. The Humanities in Society.

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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