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
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chapter 1.2|10 pages
The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century
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Not Separate Yet Unequal?
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chapter 1.3|12 pages
The Interaction between Sciences and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Materialism
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A Case Study on Jacob Moleschott's Popularizing Work and Political Activity
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chapter 1.4|13 pages
The Best Story of the World
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Theology, Geology, and Philip Henry Gosse's Omphalos
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part II|48 pages
The Science of Language
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chapter 2.1|15 pages
The Wolf in Itself
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The Uses of Enchantment in the Development of Modern Linguistics
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chapter 2.2|16 pages
Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics
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The Rise and Fall of Marr's Japhetic Theory
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chapter 2.3|14 pages
Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor-Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian Language
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part III|77 pages
Writing History
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chapter 3.2|11 pages
History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular
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A Nineteenth-Century Paradox
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chapter 3.3|13 pages
The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline
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Austrian Scholarly Periodicals, 1840-1900
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chapter 3.4|12 pages
Manuals on Historical Method
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A Genre of Polemical Reflection on the Aims of Science
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part IV|75 pages
Classical Studies and Philology
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chapter 4.2|13 pages
History of Religions in the Making
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Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and the 'Oriental Religions'
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chapter 4.3|17 pages
'Big Science' in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of Antiquity
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chapter 4.5|15 pages
What Books Are Made of
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Scholarship and Intertextuality in the History of the Humanities
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part V|45 pages
Literary and Theater Studies
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chapter 5.2|13 pages
Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950
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A Dutch Case Study
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chapter 5.3|13 pages
Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates
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The Scientific Status of Interdisciplinary-Oriented Research
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part VI|49 pages
Art History and Archeology
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chapter 6.1|15 pages
Embracing World Art
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Art History's Universal History and the Making of Image Studies
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chapter 6.3|17 pages
The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and the Making of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929
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part VII|35 pages
Musicology and Aesthetics
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chapter 7.1|12 pages
Between Sciences and Humanities
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Aesthetics and the Eighteenth-Century 'Science of Man'
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chapter 7.2|11 pages
Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds
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Stumpf, Hornbostel, and Comparative Musicology in Berlin
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chapter 7.3|9 pages
The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of Art History
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Pictures as Sources and Interpreters of Musical History
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part VIII|50 pages
East and West
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chapter 8.2|18 pages
The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s
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Karl With (1891-1980) and the Problem of Gandhara
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chapter 8.3|14 pages
Cross-Cultural Epistemology
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How European Sinology Became the Bridge to China's Modern Humanities
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part IX|77 pages
Information Science and Digital Humanities
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chapter 9.2|15 pages
Toward a Humanities of the Digital?
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Reading Search Engines as a Concordance
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chapter 9.3|15 pages
A Database, Nationalist Scholarship, and Materialist Epistemology in Netherlandish Philology
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The Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta from Paper to OPAC, 1895-1995
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chapter 9.4|15 pages
Clio's Talkative Daughter Goes Digital
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The Interplay between Technology and Oral Accounts as Historical Data
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part X|26 pages
Philosophy and the Humanities
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chapter 10.1|12 pages
Making the Humanities Scientific
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Brentano's Project of Philosophy as Science
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part XI|71 pages
The Humanities and the Social Sciences
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chapter 11.3|12 pages
The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in the Long Struggle for a Humanistic Sociology
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part XII|27 pages
The Humanities in Society
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chapter 12.1|14 pages
The Making and Persisting of Modern German Humanities
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Balancing Acts between Autonomy and Social Relevance
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