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

Volume III in the first comparative history of the humanities, focusing on the period 1850-2000. Table of Contents Introduction I The Humanities and the Sciences 1.1. Objectivity and Impartiality 1.2. The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century 1.3. The Interaction between Sciences and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Materialism 1.4. The Best Story of the World II The Science of Language 2.1. The Wolf in Itself 2.2. Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics 2.3. Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor- Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian Language1 III Writing History 3.1. A Domestic Culture 3.2. History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular 3.3. The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline 3.4. Manuals on Historical Method 3.5. The Peculiar Maturation of the History of Science IV Classical Studies and Philology 4.1. Quellenforschung 4.2. History of Religions in the Making 4.3. ‘Big Science’ in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of Antiquity 4.4. New Philology and Ancient Editors 4.5. What Books Are Made of V Literary and Theater Studies 5.1. Furio Jesi and the Culture of the Right 5.2 Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950 5.3. Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates VI Art History and Archeology 6.1. Embracing World Art 6.2 .Generic Classification and Habitual Subject Matter 6.3. The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and the Making of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929 VII Musicology and Aesthetics 7.1. Between Sciences and Humanities 7.2. Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds 7.3. The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of Art History VIII East and West 8.1. The Making of Oriental Studies 8.2. The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s 8.3. Cross-Cultural Epistemology IX Information Science and Digital Humanities 9.1. Historical Roots of Information Sciences and the Making of E-Humanities 9.2. Toward a Humanities of the Digital? 9.3. A Database, Nationalist Scholarship, and Materialist Epistemology in Netherlandish Philology 9.4. Clio’s Talkative Daughter Goes Digital 9.5. The Humanities’ New Methods X Philosophy and the Humanities 10.1. Making the Humanities Scientific 10.2. The Weimar Origins of Political Theory XI The Humanities and the Social Sciences 11.1. Explaining Verstehen 11.2. Discovering Sexuality 11.3. The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in the Long Struggle for a Humanistic Sociology 11.4. Sociology and the Proliferation of Knowledge 11.5. Inhumanity in the Humanities XII The Humanities in Society 12.1. The Making and Persisting of Modern German Humanities 12.2. Critique and Theory in the History of the Modern Humanities Epilogue About the Authors List of Figures Index This book is the long awaited third volume in a series that provides a comprehensive comparative history of the humanities. This installment turns to the modern period, from 1850 to 2000, bringing together specialists in philology, musicology, art history, linguistics, archaeology, and literary theory to explore the intertwining nature of these various disciplines, and how together they make up the broader investigative project of the humanities This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Lorraine Daston, John Joseph, Glenn Most, John Pickstone and Jo Tollebeek, 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 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. "The book focuses on the modern period in the development of this dynamic field (1850-2000)."--Page 4 of cover