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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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  1. Cover
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  1. Title, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. 1-6
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. 7-12
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  1. Introduction: The Making of the Modern Humanities
  2. pp. 13-24
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  1. I: The Humanities and the Sciences
  1. 1.1: Objectivity and Impartiality: Epistemic Virtues in the Humanities
  2. Lorraine Daston
  3. pp. 27-42
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  1. 1.2: The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century: Not Separate Yet Unequal?
  2. H. Floris Choen
  3. pp. 43-52
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  1. 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
  2. Laura Meneghello
  3. pp. 53-64
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  1. 1.4: The Best Story of the World: Theology, Geology, and Philip Henry Gosse’s Omphalos
  2. Virginia Richter
  3. pp. 65-78
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  1. II: The Science of Language
  1. 2.1: The Wolf in Itself: The Uses of Enchantment in the Development of Modern Linguistics
  2. John E. Joseph
  3. pp. 81-96
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  1. 2.2: Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics: The Rise and Fall of Marr’s Japhetic Theory
  2. Michiel Leezenberg
  3. pp. 97-112
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  1. 2.3: Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor-Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian Language
  2. László Marácz
  3. pp. 113-126
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  1. III: Writing History
  1. 3.1: A Domestic Culture: The Mise-en-scène of Modern Historiography
  2. Jo Tollebeek
  3. pp. 129-144
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  1. 3.2: History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular: A Nineteenth-Century Paradox
  2. Marita Mathijsen
  3. pp. 145-156
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  1. 3.3: The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline: Austrian Scholarly Periodicals, 1840-1900
  2. Christine Ottner
  3. pp. 157-170
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  1. 3.4: Manuals on Historical Method: A Genre of Polemical Reflection on the Aims of Science
  2. Herman Paul
  3. pp. 171-182
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  1. 3.5: The Peculiar Maturation of the History of Science
  2. Bart Karstens
  3. pp. 183-204
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  1. IV. Classical Studies and Philogy
  1. 4.1: Quellenforschung
  2. Glenn W. Most
  3. pp. 207-218
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  1. 4.2: History of Religions in the Making: Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and the ‘Oriental Religions’
  2. Eline Scheerlinck
  3. pp. 219-232
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  1. 4.3: ‘Big Science’ in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of Antiquity
  2. Annette M. Baertschi
  3. pp. 233-250
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  1. 4.4: New Philology and Ancient Editors: Some Dynamics ofTextual Criticism
  2. Jacqueline Klooster
  3. pp. 251-264
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  1. 4.5: What Books Are Made of: Scholarship and Intertextuality in theHistory of the Humanities
  2. Floris Solleveld
  3. pp. 265-280
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  1. V. Literary and Theater Studies
  1. 5.1: Furio Jesi and the Culture of the Right
  2. Ingrid D. Rowland
  3. pp. 283-298
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  1. 5.2: Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950: A Dutch Case Study
  2. Ton van Kalmthout
  3. pp. 299-312
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  1. 5.3: Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates: The Scientific Status of Interdisciplinary-Oriented Research
  2. Chiara Maria Buglioni
  3. pp. 313-326
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  1. VI. Art History and Archaeology
  1. 6.1: Embracing World Art: Art History’s Universal History and theMaking of Image Studies
  2. Birgit Mersmann
  3. pp. 329-344
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  1. 6.2: Generic Classification and Habitual Subject Matter
  2. Adi Efal
  3. pp. 345-358
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  1. 6.3: The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and theMaking of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929
  2. pp. 359-375
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  1. VII. Musicology and Aesthetics
  1. 7.1: Between Sciences and Humanities: Aesthetics and the Eighteenth-Century ‘Science of Man’
  2. Maria Semi
  3. pp. 379-390
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  1. 7.2: Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds: Stumpf, Hornbostel, andComparative Musicology in Berlin
  2. Riccardo Martinelli
  3. pp. 391-402
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  1. 7.3: The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of ArtHistory: Pictures as Sources and Interpreters of Musical History
  2. Alexis Ruccius
  3. pp. 403-413
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  1. VII. East and West
  1. 8.1: The Making of Oriental Studies: Its Transnational andTransatlantic Past
  2. Steffi Marung and Katja Naumann
  3. pp. 415-430
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  1. 8.2: The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s: Karl With(1891-1980) and the Problem of Gandhara
  2. Julia Orell
  3. pp. 431-448
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  1. 8.3: Cross-Cultural Epistemology: How European Sinology Becamethe Bridge to China’s Modern Humanities
  2. Perry Johansson
  3. pp. 449-463
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  1. IX. Information Science and Digital Humanities
  1. 9.1: Historical Roots of Information Sciences and the Making ofE-Humanities
  2. Charles van den Heuvel
  3. pp. 465-478
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  1. 9.2: Toward a Humanities of the Digital? Reading Search Engines asa Concordance
  2. Johanna Sprondel
  3. pp. 479-494
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  1. 9.3: A Database, Nationalist Scholarship, and Materialist Epistemologyin Netherlandish Philology: The Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscriptafrom Paper to OPAC, 1895-1995
  2. Jan Rock
  3. pp. 495-510
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  1. 9.4: Clio’s Talkative Daughter Goes Digital: The Interplay betweenTechnology and Oral Accounts as Historical Data
  2. Stef Scagliola and Franciska de Jong
  3. pp. 511-526
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  1. 9.5: Humanities’ New Methods: A Reconnaissance Mission
  2. Jan-Willem Romeijn
  3. pp. 527-541
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  1. X. Philosophy and the Humanities
  1. 10.1: Making the Humanities Scientific: Brentano’s Project of Philosophyas Science
  2. Carlo Ierna
  3. pp. 543-554
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  1. 10.2: The Weimar Origins of Political Theory: A HumanitiesInterdiscipline
  2. David L. Marshall
  3. pp. 555-566
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  1. XI. The Humanities and the Social Sciences
  1. 11.1: Explaining Verstehen: Max Weber’s Views on Explanation inthe Humanities
  2. Jeroen Bouterse
  3. pp. 569-582
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  1. 11.2: Discovering Sexuality: The Status of Literature as Evidence
  2. Robert Deam Tobin
  3. pp. 583-596
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  1. 11.3: The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in theLong Struggle for a Humanistic Sociology
  2. Marinus Ossewaarde
  3. pp. 597-608
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  1. 11.4: Sociology and the Proliferation of Knowledge: La Condition Humaine
  2. Bram Kempers
  3. pp. 609-626
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  1. 11.5: Inhumanity in the Humanities: On a Rare Consensus in theHuman Sciences
  2. Abram de Swaan
  3. pp. 627-639
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  1. XII. The Humanities in Society
  1. 12.1: The Making and Persisting of Modern German Humanities:Balancing Acts between Autonomy and Social Relevance
  2. Vincent Gengnagel and Julian Hamann
  3. pp. 641-654
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  1. 12.2: Critique and Theory in the History of the Modern Humanities
  2. Paul Jay
  3. pp. 655-666
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  1. Epilogue: Toward a History of Western Knowledges: Sketching Togetherthe Histories of the Humanities and the Natural Sciences
  2. John V. Pickstone
  3. pp. 667-686
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  1. About the Authors
  2. pp. 687-698
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  1. List of Figures
  2. pp. 699-702
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 703-724
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