Writing the History of the Humanities (eBook, PDF)

Questions, Themes, and Approaches
Redaktion: Paul, Herman

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023

What are the humanities? As the cluster of disciplines historically grouped together as "humanities" has grown and diversified to include media studies and digital studies alongside philosophy, art history and musicology to name a few, the need to clearly define the field is pertinent.

Herman Paul leads a stellar line-up of esteemed and early-career scholars to provide an overview of the themes, questions and methods that are central to current research on the history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century humanities. This exciting addition to the successful Writing History series will draw from a wide range of case-studies from diverse fields, as classical philology, art history, and Biblical studies, to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the field.

In doing so, this ground-breaking book challenges the rigid distinctions between disciplines and show the variety of prisms through which historians of the humanities study the past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350199071
• Artikelnr.: 66649622

Autorenporträt

Herman Paul is Professor of the History of the Humanities at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction: What Is the History of the Humanities?
Herman Paul (Leiden University
The Netherlands) Part I: Definitions and Backgrounds 1. What Are the Humanities? A Short History of Concepts and Classifications
Fabian Krämer (University of Munich
Germany) 2. From Philology to the Humanities: Fragmentation and Discipline Formation in the United Kingdom and United States
James Turner (University of Notre Dame
USA) 3. The Humanities in Crisis: Comparative Perspectives on a Recurring Motif
Hampus Östh Gustafsson (Uppsala University
Sweden) Part II: Research Practices 4. Modernizing the Comparative Method: Marx and Darwin
Devin Griffiths (University of Southern California
USA) 5. Language and the Mapping of the World: Nineteenth-Century Linguistics in Relation to Ethnology and Geography
Floris Solleveld (KU Leuven
Belgium) 6. "Big"-ness in Action: Notes from a Lexicon
Christian Bradley Flow (Mississippi State University
USA) 7. Oral History and the (Digital) Humanities
Julianne Nyhan and Andrew Flinn (both University College London
UK) Part III: Values and Virtues 8. Practical Learning: The Transnational Career of an Epistemic Value in Japan
Michael Facius (University of Tokyo
Japan) 9. An Ethos of Criticism: Virtues and Vices in Nineteenth-Century Strasbourg
Herman Paul (Leiden University
The Netherlands) 10. Producing the Masculine Scholar: Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Falko Schnicke (Johannes Kepler University
Linz
Austria) 11. Scholarly Activism in Africa: The General History of Africa (1964-98)
Larissa Schulte Nordholt (Leiden University
The Netherlands) Part IV: Teaching Practices 12. The Humanities in the Vocational University: On the Unity of Teaching and Research
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen (Roskilde University
Denmark) 13. On the Purpose of Humanities Education: A Historical Perspective from the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States
Claire Rydell Arcenas (University of Montana
USA) Part V: Visions of the Future 14. A Postcritical Turn? Unravelling the Meaning of "Post" and "Turn"
Herman Paul (Leiden University
The Netherlands) 15. Environmental Humanities: Entangled Interdisciplinarity
Kristine Steenbergh (Vrije University Amsterdam
The Netherlands) 16. Humanities across Time and Space: Four Challenges for a New Discipline
Rens Bod (University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands) Glossary Index