Making of the Humanities - Volume 1 - Early Modern Europe

Klappentext Zoals blijkt uit een beruchte opmerking van Ronald Plasterk dat 'alfa's de geschiedenis schrijven! en beta's de geschiedenis maken'! is de invloed van de alfawetenschappen lange tijd onderschat. Dit boek is een eerste stap tot een overzichtsgeschiedenis van de humaniora. Specialisten uit verschillende vakgebieden bieden een vergelijkende geschieden Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents - 6[-]Introduction: Historiography of the Humanities[-] - 8[-]I. The Humanities versus the Sciences[-] - 16[-]How Comparative Should a Comparative History of the Humanities Be?[-] - 18[-]Bridging the Gap - 40[-]Music as Science and as Art[-] - 60[-]II. The Visual Arts as Liberal Arts[-] - 74[-]Representing the World[-] - 76[-]Ficino! Diacceto and Michelangelo's[-] - 108[-]'Signs that Signify by Themselves'[-] - 134[-]III. Humanism and Heresy[-] - 162[-]Giordano Bruno and Metaphor[-] - 164[-]'In Erudition There Is No Heresy'[-] - 178[-]IV. Language and Poetics - 198[-]Humanism in the Classroom! a Reassessment[-] - 200[-]Origins and Principles[-] - 232[-]Transitional Texts and Emerging Linguistic Self-Awareness[-] - 250[-]V. Linguists and Logicians[-] - 262[-]The Changing Relations between Grammar! Rhetoric and Music in the Early Modern Period[-] - 264[-]The Artes Sermocinales in Times of Adversity[-] - 284[-]VI. Philology and Philosophy[-] - 298[-]Manuscript Hunting and the Challenge of Textual Variance in Late Seventeenth-Century Icelandic Studies[-] - 300[-]Spinoza in the History of Biblical Scholarship[-] - 314[-]The 'Rules of Critique'[-] - 328[-]VII. The History of History[-] - 350[-]Framing a New Mode of Historical[-]Experience - 352[-]Philosophy's Shadow[-] - 368[-]Contributors[-] - 386[-]List of Figures - 392[-]Index - 396

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• Authors: Prof. Dr. Rens Maat Bod, Rens Maat Bod, Jaap Weststeijn Maat
• Assisted by: Rens Bod (Editor), Jaap Maat (Editor), Thijs Weststeijn (Editor)
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2010
• EAN: 9789089642691
• ISBN: 978-90-8964-269-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Amsterdam University Press
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History