Philology : the forgotten origins of the modern humanities

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Turner, James, 1946- (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014
Subjects
filologie > dějiny
historická lingvistika
humanitní vědy
humanitní vzdělávání
philology > history
historical linguistics
humanities
monografie
monographs
ISBN9780691145648
Physical Descriptionxxiv, 550 s. ; 24 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • "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
  • "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
  • "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

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