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

Weststeijn, Thijs; Maat, Jaap; Bod, Rens

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

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Edited by Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, and Thijs Weststeijn

2014

Published by: Amsterdam University Press

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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.

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Title, Copyright, Dedication

pp. 1-6

pp. 7-12

Introduction: The Making of the Modern Humanities

pp. 13-24

I: The Humanities and the Sciences

1.1: Objectivity and Impartiality: Epistemic Virtues in the Humanities

Lorraine Daston

pp. 27-42

1.2: The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century: Not Separate Yet Unequal?

H. Floris Choen

pp. 43-52

1.3: The Interaction between Sciences and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Materialism: A Case Study on Jacob Moleschott’s Popularizing Work and Political Activity

Laura Meneghello

pp. 53-64

1.4: The Best Story of the World: Theology, Geology, and Philip Henry Gosse’s Omphalos

Virginia Richter

pp. 65-78

II: The Science of Language

2.1: The Wolf in Itself: The Uses of Enchantment in the Development of Modern Linguistics

John E. Joseph

pp. 81-96

2.2: Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics: The Rise and Fall of Marr’s Japhetic Theory

Michiel Leezenberg

pp. 97-112

2.3: Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor-Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian Language

László Marácz

pp. 113-126

III: Writing History

3.1: A Domestic Culture: The Mise-en-scène of Modern Historiography

Jo Tollebeek

pp. 129-144

3.2: History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular: A Nineteenth-Century Paradox

Marita Mathijsen

pp. 145-156

3.3: The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline: Austrian Scholarly Periodicals, 1840-1900

Christine Ottner

pp. 157-170

3.4: Manuals on Historical Method: A Genre of Polemical Reflection on the Aims of Science

Herman Paul

pp. 171-182

3.5: The Peculiar Maturation of the History of Science

Bart Karstens

pp. 183-204

IV. Classical Studies and Philogy

4.1: Quellenforschung

Glenn W. Most

pp. 207-218

4.2: History of Religions in the Making: Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and the ‘Oriental Religions’

Eline Scheerlinck

pp. 219-232

4.3: ‘Big Science’ in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of Antiquity

Annette M. Baertschi

pp. 233-250

4.4: New Philology and Ancient Editors: Some Dynamics ofTextual Criticism

Jacqueline Klooster

pp. 251-264

4.5: What Books Are Made of: Scholarship and Intertextuality in theHistory of the Humanities

Floris Solleveld

pp. 265-280

V. Literary and Theater Studies

5.1: Furio Jesi and the Culture of the Right

Ingrid D. Rowland

pp. 283-298

5.2: Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950: A Dutch Case Study

Ton van Kalmthout

pp. 299-312

5.3: Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates: The Scientific Status of Interdisciplinary-Oriented Research

Chiara Maria Buglioni

pp. 313-326

VI. Art History and Archaeology

6.1: Embracing World Art: Art History’s Universal History and theMaking of Image Studies

Birgit Mersmann

pp. 329-344

6.2: Generic Classification and Habitual Subject Matter

Adi Efal

pp. 345-358

6.3: The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and theMaking of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929

pp. 359-375

VII. Musicology and Aesthetics

7.1: Between Sciences and Humanities: Aesthetics and the Eighteenth-Century ‘Science of Man’

Maria Semi

pp. 379-390

7.2: Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds: Stumpf, Hornbostel, andComparative Musicology in Berlin

Riccardo Martinelli

pp. 391-402

7.3: The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of ArtHistory: Pictures as Sources and Interpreters of Musical History

Alexis Ruccius

pp. 403-413

VII. East and West

8.1: The Making of Oriental Studies: Its Transnational andTransatlantic Past

Steffi Marung and Katja Naumann

pp. 415-430

8.2: The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s: Karl With(1891-1980) and the Problem of Gandhara

Julia Orell

pp. 431-448

8.3: Cross-Cultural Epistemology: How European Sinology Becamethe Bridge to China’s Modern Humanities

Perry Johansson

pp. 449-463

IX. Information Science and Digital Humanities

9.1: Historical Roots of Information Sciences and the Making ofE-Humanities

Charles van den Heuvel

pp. 465-478

9.2: Toward a Humanities of the Digital? Reading Search Engines asa Concordance

Johanna Sprondel

pp. 479-494

9.3: A Database, Nationalist Scholarship, and Materialist Epistemologyin Netherlandish Philology: The Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscriptafrom Paper to OPAC, 1895-1995

Jan Rock

pp. 495-510

9.4: Clio’s Talkative Daughter Goes Digital: The Interplay betweenTechnology and Oral Accounts as Historical Data

Stef Scagliola and Franciska de Jong

pp. 511-526

9.5: Humanities’ New Methods: A Reconnaissance Mission

Jan-Willem Romeijn

pp. 527-541

X. Philosophy and the Humanities

10.1: Making the Humanities Scientific: Brentano’s Project of Philosophyas Science

Carlo Ierna

pp. 543-554

10.2: The Weimar Origins of Political Theory: A HumanitiesInterdiscipline

David L. Marshall

pp. 555-566

XI. The Humanities and the Social Sciences

11.1: Explaining Verstehen: Max Weber’s Views on Explanation inthe Humanities

Jeroen Bouterse

pp. 569-582

11.2: Discovering Sexuality: The Status of Literature as Evidence

Robert Deam Tobin

pp. 583-596

11.3: The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in theLong Struggle for a Humanistic Sociology

Marinus Ossewaarde

pp. 597-608

11.4: Sociology and the Proliferation of Knowledge: La Condition Humaine

Bram Kempers

pp. 609-626

11.5: Inhumanity in the Humanities: On a Rare Consensus in theHuman Sciences

Abram de Swaan

pp. 627-639

XII. The Humanities in Society

12.1: The Making and Persisting of Modern German Humanities:Balancing Acts between Autonomy and Social Relevance

Vincent Gengnagel and Julian Hamann

pp. 641-654

12.2: Critique and Theory in the History of the Modern Humanities

Paul Jay

pp. 655-666

Epilogue: Toward a History of Western Knowledges: Sketching Togetherthe Histories of the Humanities and the Natural Sciences

John V. Pickstone

pp. 667-686

About the Authors

pp. 687-698

List of Figures

pp. 699-702

Index

pp. 703-724

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ISBN	9789048518449
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OCLC	1111346189
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