Writing the History of the Humanities : Questions, Themes, and Approaches /: Questions, Themes, and Approaches. (2022)
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- Writing the History of the Humanities : Questions, Themes, and Approaches /: Questions, Themes, and Approaches. (2022)
- Main Title:
- Writing the History of the Humanities : Questions, Themes, and Approaches
- Further Information:
- Note: Herman Paul.
- Authors:
- Paul, Herman
- Contents:
- PrefaceList of IllustrationsList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction: 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 Practices4. 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 Virtues8. 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 SchnickePrefaceList of IllustrationsList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction: 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 Practices4. 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 Virtues8. 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 Future14. 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)GlossaryIndex. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (392 pages)
- Subjects:
- Humanities
Historiography
Study & learning skills: general
History -- Study & Teaching
History -- Historiography
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781350199088
1350199087 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350199064
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