ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|53 pages
The Humanities and the Sciences
chapter 1.2|10 pages
The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century
chapter 1.3|12 pages
The Interaction between Sciences and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Materialism
chapter 1.4|13 pages
The Best Story of the World
part II|48 pages
The Science of Language
chapter 2.1|15 pages
The Wolf in Itself
chapter 2.2|16 pages
Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics
chapter 2.3|14 pages
Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor-Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian Language
part III|77 pages
Writing History
chapter 3.2|11 pages
History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular
chapter 3.3|13 pages
The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline
chapter 3.4|12 pages
Manuals on Historical Method
part IV|75 pages
Classical Studies and Philology
chapter 4.2|13 pages
History of Religions in the Making
chapter 4.3|17 pages
'Big Science' in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of Antiquity
chapter 4.5|15 pages
What Books Are Made of
part V|45 pages
Literary and Theater Studies
chapter 5.2|13 pages
Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950
chapter 5.3|13 pages
Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates
part VI|49 pages
Art History and Archeology
chapter 6.1|15 pages
Embracing World Art
chapter 6.3|17 pages
The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and the Making of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929
part VII|35 pages
Musicology and Aesthetics
chapter 7.1|12 pages
Between Sciences and Humanities
chapter 7.2|11 pages
Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds
chapter 7.3|9 pages
The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of Art History
part VIII|50 pages
East and West
chapter 8.2|18 pages
The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s
chapter 8.3|14 pages
Cross-Cultural Epistemology
part IX|77 pages
Information Science and Digital Humanities
chapter 9.2|15 pages
Toward a Humanities of the Digital?
chapter 9.3|15 pages
A Database, Nationalist Scholarship, and Materialist Epistemology in Netherlandish Philology
chapter 9.4|15 pages
Clio's Talkative Daughter Goes Digital
part X|26 pages
Philosophy and the Humanities
chapter 10.1|12 pages
Making the Humanities Scientific
part XI|71 pages
The Humanities and the Social Sciences
chapter 11.3|12 pages
The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in the Long Struggle for a Humanistic Sociology
part XII|27 pages
The Humanities in Society
