Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

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Princeton University Press, 04/05/2014 - 576 páginas

A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century

Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences. How did it become little more than an archaic word?

In Philology, the first history of Western humanistic learning as a connected whole ever published in English, James Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university. The humanities today face a crisis of relevance, if not of meaning and purpose. Understanding their common origins—and what they still share—has never been more urgent.

 

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Índice

PART I FROM THE FIRST PHILOLOGISTS TO 1800
1
PART II ON THE BRINK OF THE MODERN HUMANITIES 1800 TO THE MIDNINETEENTH CENTURY
123
PART III THE MODERN HUMANITIES IN THE MODERN UNIVERSITY THE MIDNINETEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
231
Epilogue
381
Notes
387
Works Cited
453
Index
509
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academic Altertumswissenschaft American ancient ancient Greek Anglo Anglo-Saxon anthropology antiquarian antiquity archaeology art history became began Bentley Bible biblical criticism biblical philology British Cambridge chap Charles Christian classical antiquity classical philology classicists College comparative philology context culture Dictionary of National discipline edition emendation England English erudition Essay European Frazer George German Gildersleeve Göttingen Grafton grammar Greek guage Harvard Hebrew historians Homer human humanistic Indian Indology James Jewish John Jones language later Latin learned lectures Library linguistic literary literature London manuscripts Max Müller medieval method Michaelis Müller Museum National Biography Niebuhr nineteenth century Norton Old Testament original Oxford Dictionary philologists philosophic Ponceau Princeton professor published quotation readers religion rhetoric Roman Rome Sanskrit Saxon scholarly scholars scholarship Scottish scriptures Smith Society teaching texts textual philology theological Thomas tion tradition translation Tylor United Kingdom University Press Whitney William William Robertson Smith words Wren Library writing wrote

Acerca do autor (2014)

James Turner is the Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, where he taught in the History Department and the doctoral program in history and philosophy of science.

Informação bibliográfica

TítuloPhilology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
The William G. Bowen Series
AutorJames Turner
Ediçãoreimpressão
EditoraPrinceton University Press, 2014
ISBN1400850150, 9781400850150
Número de páginas576 páginas
  
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