Philology : the forgotten origins of the modern humanities

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Auteur principal : Turner James (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Philology : the forgotten origins of the modern humanities / James Turner
Publié : Princeton, Oxford : Princeton University press , 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXIV-550 p.)
Sujets :
  • From the first philologists to 1800
  • "Cloistered bookworms, quarreling endlessly in the muses' bird-cage": from Greek antiquity to circa 1400
  • "A complete mastery of antiquity": Renaissance, Reformation, and beyond
  • "A voracious and undistinguishing appetite": British philology to the mid-eighteenth century
  • "Deep erudition ingeniously applied": revolutions of the later eighteenth century
  • On the brink of the modern humanities, 1800 to the mid-nineteenth century
  • "The similarity of structure which pervades all languages": from philology to linguistics, 1800-1850
  • "Genuinely national poetry and prose": literary philology and literary studies, 1800-1860
  • "An epoch in historical science": the civilized past, 1800-1850
  • I. Altertumswissenschaft and classical studies
  • II. Archaeology
  • III. History
  • "Grammatical and exegetical tact": biblical philology and its others, 1800-1860
  • The modern humanities in the modern university, the mid-nineteenth to the twentieth century
  • "This newly opened mine of scientific inquiry": between history and nature: linguistics after 1850
  • "Painstaking research quite equal to mathematical physics": literature, 1860-1920
  • "No tendency toward dilettantism": the civilized past after 1850
  • I. 'Classics' becomes a discipline
  • II. History
  • III. Art history
  • "The field naturalists of human nature": anthropology congeals into a discipline, 1840-1910
  • "The highest and most engaging of the manifestations of human nature": biblical philology and the rise of religious studies after 1860
  • I. The fate of biblical philology
  • II. The rise of comparative religious studies
  • Epilogue