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This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, survey the rise of the humanities in interaction with the natural and social sciences, offering new perspectives on the interaction between disciplines in Europe and Asia and new insights generated by digital humanities.
List of contents
Part I. The Humanities and the Sciences; [-]Part II. The Science of Language; [-]Part III. Writing History; [-]Part IV. Classical Studies and Philology; [-]Part V. Literary and Theatre Studies; [-]Part VI. Art History and Archaeology; [-]Part VII. Musicology; [-]Part VIII. East and West; [-]Part IX. Information Science and Digital Humanities; [-]Part X. Philosophy and the Humanities; [-]Part XI. The Humanities and the Social Sciences; [-]Part XII. The Humanities in Society.[-]
About the author
Rens Bod is Vici-Laureate and Full Professor in Computational Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. Books: Beyond Grammar (CSLI/Cambridge University Press), Probabilistic Linguistics (MIT Press), Data-Oriented Parsing (University of Chicago Press), A New History of the Humanities (Oxford University Press). Jaap Maat is Professor in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Books: Philosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century: Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz (Synthese Historical Library, Kluwer, 2004), George Dalgarno on Universal Language (Oxford University Press, 2001). Thijs Weststeijn is a researcher and lecturer at the department of Art History of the University of Amsterdam.
