Writing the history of the humanities : questions, themes, and approaches / edited by Herman Paul.
Series: Writing historyLondon, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023Description: xiii, 374 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781350199101
- 23 001.309 W93 2023
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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 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 Practices12. 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) Glossary Index
overview of the themes, questions, and methods that are central to current research on the history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century humanities. Taking readers through the field's core definitions, its practical applications, and engagement with socio-political events..." -- page 4 of cover
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