Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

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Princeton University Press, 15/09/2015 - 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

FROM THE FIRST PHILOLOGISTS TO 1800
1
Renaissance
33
British
65
Revolutions
91
ON THE BRINK OF THE MODERN
123
Literary Philology
147
The Civilized Past
167
Others 18001860
210
Painstaking Research Quite Equal to Mathematical
254
The Civilized
274
Anthropology
328
The Highest and Most Engaging of the Manifestations
357
Epilogue
381
Notes
387
Works Cited
453
Index
509

THE MODERN HUMANITIES IN
231
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Acerca do autor (2015)

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
EditoraPrinceton University Press, 2015
ISBN069116858X, 9780691168586
Número de páginas576 páginas
  
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