The Making of the Humanities, Volume III: The Modern Humanities
edited by Rens Bod, Thijs Weststeijn and Jaap Maat
Amsterdam University Press, 2014 Paper: 978-90-8964-516-6 | eISBN: 978-90-485-1844-9 Library of Congress Classification AZ341.M34 2010 Dewey Decimal Classification 940.2
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK 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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY 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).
REVIEWS
“Attention is fruitfully devoted to the emergence . . . of what are recognizably the modern academic disciplines of world literature, art history, music history, and linguistics, among others. . . . [An] excellent collection. . . . Highly recommended.”
— Choice
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The Making of the Modern Humanities Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, and Thijs Weststeijn
I The Humanities and the Sciences
1.1 Objectivity and Impartiality: Epistemic Virtues in the Humanities Lorraine Daston
1.2 The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century: Not Separate Yet Unequal? H. Floris Cohen
1.3 The Interaction between Sciences and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Materialism: A Case Study on Jacob Moleschott’s Popularizing Work and Political Activity Laura Meneghello
1.4 The Best Story of the World: Theology, Geology, and Philip Henry Gosse’s Omphalos Virginia Richter
II The Science of Language
2.1 The Wolf in Itself: The Uses of Enchantment in the Development of Modern Linguistics John E. Joseph
2.2 Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics: The Rise and Fall of Marr’s Japhetic Theory Michiel Leezenberg
2.3 Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor-Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian Language László Marácz
III Writing History
3.1 A Domestic Culture: The Mise-en-scène of Modern Historiography Jo Tollebeek
3.2 History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular: A Nineteenth-Century Paradox Marita Mathijsen
3.3 The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline: Austrian Scholarly Periodicals, 1840-1900 Christine Ottner
3.4 Manuals on Historical Method: A Genre of Polemical Reflection on the Aims of Science Herman Paul
3.5 The Peculiar Maturation of the History of Science Bart Karstens
IV Classical Studies and Philology
4.1 Quellenforschung Glenn W. Most
4.2 History of Religions in the Making: Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and the ‘Oriental Religions’ Eline Scheerlinck
4.3 ‘Big Science’ in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of Antiquity Annette M. Baertschi
4.4 New Philology and Ancient Editors: Some Dynamics of Textual Criticism Jacqueline Klooster
4.5 What Books Are Made of: Scholarship and Intertextuality in the History of the Humanities Floris Solleveld
V Literary and Theater Studies
5.1 Furio Jesi and the Culture of the Right Ingrid D. Rowland
5.2 Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950: A Dutch Case Study Ton van Kalmthout
5.3 Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates: The Scientific Status of Interdisciplinary-Oriented Research Chiara Maria Buglioni
VI Art History and Archeology
6.1 Embracing World Art: Art History’s Universal History and the Making of Image Studies Birgit Mersmann
6.2 Generic Classification and Habitual Subject Matter Adi Efal
6.3 The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and the Making of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929 José María Lanzarote-Guiral
VII Musicology and Aesthetics
7.1 Between Sciences and Humanities: Aesthetics and the Eighteenth-Century ‘Science of Man’ Maria Semi
7.2 Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds: Stumpf, Hornbostel, and Comparative Musicology in Berlin Riccardo Martinelli
7.3 The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of Art History: Pictures as Sources and Interpreters of Musical History Alexis Ruccius
VIII East and West
8.1 The Making of Oriental Studies: Its Transnational and Transatlantic Past Steffi Marung and Katja Naumann
8.2 The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s: Karl With(1891-1980) and the Problem of Gandhara Julia Orell
8.3 Cross-Cultural Epistemology: How European Sinology Became the Bridge to China’s Modern Humanities Perry Johansson
IX Information Science and Digital Humanities
9.1 Historical Roots of Information Sciences and the Making of E-Humanities Charles van den Heuvel
9.2 Toward a Humanities of the Digital? Reading Search Engines as a Concordance Johanna Sprondel
9.3 A Database, Nationalist Scholarship, and Materialist Epistemology in Netherlandish Philology: The Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscriptafrom Paper to OPAC, 1895-1995 Jan Rock
9.4 Clio’s Talkative Daughter Goes Digital: The Interplay between Technology and Oral Accounts as Historical Data Stef Scagliola and Franciska de Jong
9.5 Humanities’ New Methods: A Reconnaissance Mission Jan-Willem Romeijn
X Philosophy and the Humanities
10.1 Making the Humanities Scientific: Brentano’s Project of Philosophy as Science Carlo Ierna
10.2 The Weimar Origins of Political Theory: A Humanities Interdiscipline David L. Marshall
XI The Humanities and the Social Sciences
11.1 Explaining Verstehen: Max Weber’s Views on Explanation in the Humanities Jeroen Bouterse
11.2 Discovering Sexuality: The Status of Literature as Evidence Robert Deam Tobin
11.3 The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in the Long Struggle for a Humanistic Sociology Marinus Ossewaarde
11.4 Sociology and the Proliferation of Knowledge: La Condition Humaine Bram Kempers
11.5 Inhumanity in the Humanities: On a Rare Consensus in the Human Sciences Abram de Swaan
XII The Humanities in Society
12.1 The Making and Persisting of Modern German Humanities: Balancing Acts between Autonomy and Social Relevance Vincent Gengnagel and Julian Hamann
12.2 Critique and Theory in the History of the Modern Humanities Paul Jay
Epilogue
Toward a History of Western Knowledges: Sketching Together the Histories of the Humanities and the Natural Sciences John V. Pickstone
The Making of the Humanities, Volume III: The Modern Humanities
edited by Rens Bod, Thijs Weststeijn and Jaap Maat
Amsterdam University Press, 2014 Paper: 978-90-8964-516-6 eISBN: 978-90-485-1844-9
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY 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).
REVIEWS
“Attention is fruitfully devoted to the emergence . . . of what are recognizably the modern academic disciplines of world literature, art history, music history, and linguistics, among others. . . . [An] excellent collection. . . . Highly recommended.”
— Choice
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The Making of the Modern Humanities Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, and Thijs Weststeijn
I The Humanities and the Sciences
1.1 Objectivity and Impartiality: Epistemic Virtues in the Humanities Lorraine Daston
1.2 The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century: Not Separate Yet Unequal? H. Floris Cohen
1.3 The Interaction between Sciences and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Materialism: A Case Study on Jacob Moleschott’s Popularizing Work and Political Activity Laura Meneghello
1.4 The Best Story of the World: Theology, Geology, and Philip Henry Gosse’s Omphalos Virginia Richter
II The Science of Language
2.1 The Wolf in Itself: The Uses of Enchantment in the Development of Modern Linguistics John E. Joseph
2.2 Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics: The Rise and Fall of Marr’s Japhetic Theory Michiel Leezenberg
2.3 Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor-Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian Language László Marácz
III Writing History
3.1 A Domestic Culture: The Mise-en-scène of Modern Historiography Jo Tollebeek
3.2 History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular: A Nineteenth-Century Paradox Marita Mathijsen
3.3 The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline: Austrian Scholarly Periodicals, 1840-1900 Christine Ottner
3.4 Manuals on Historical Method: A Genre of Polemical Reflection on the Aims of Science Herman Paul
3.5 The Peculiar Maturation of the History of Science Bart Karstens
IV Classical Studies and Philology
4.1 Quellenforschung Glenn W. Most
4.2 History of Religions in the Making: Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and the ‘Oriental Religions’ Eline Scheerlinck
4.3 ‘Big Science’ in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of Antiquity Annette M. Baertschi
4.4 New Philology and Ancient Editors: Some Dynamics of Textual Criticism Jacqueline Klooster
4.5 What Books Are Made of: Scholarship and Intertextuality in the History of the Humanities Floris Solleveld
V Literary and Theater Studies
5.1 Furio Jesi and the Culture of the Right Ingrid D. Rowland
5.2 Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950: A Dutch Case Study Ton van Kalmthout
5.3 Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates: The Scientific Status of Interdisciplinary-Oriented Research Chiara Maria Buglioni
VI Art History and Archeology
6.1 Embracing World Art: Art History’s Universal History and the Making of Image Studies Birgit Mersmann
6.2 Generic Classification and Habitual Subject Matter Adi Efal
6.3 The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and the Making of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929 José María Lanzarote-Guiral
VII Musicology and Aesthetics
7.1 Between Sciences and Humanities: Aesthetics and the Eighteenth-Century ‘Science of Man’ Maria Semi
7.2 Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds: Stumpf, Hornbostel, and Comparative Musicology in Berlin Riccardo Martinelli
7.3 The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of Art History: Pictures as Sources and Interpreters of Musical History Alexis Ruccius
VIII East and West
8.1 The Making of Oriental Studies: Its Transnational and Transatlantic Past Steffi Marung and Katja Naumann
8.2 The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s: Karl With(1891-1980) and the Problem of Gandhara Julia Orell
8.3 Cross-Cultural Epistemology: How European Sinology Became the Bridge to China’s Modern Humanities Perry Johansson
IX Information Science and Digital Humanities
9.1 Historical Roots of Information Sciences and the Making of E-Humanities Charles van den Heuvel
9.2 Toward a Humanities of the Digital? Reading Search Engines as a Concordance Johanna Sprondel
9.3 A Database, Nationalist Scholarship, and Materialist Epistemology in Netherlandish Philology: The Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscriptafrom Paper to OPAC, 1895-1995 Jan Rock
9.4 Clio’s Talkative Daughter Goes Digital: The Interplay between Technology and Oral Accounts as Historical Data Stef Scagliola and Franciska de Jong
9.5 Humanities’ New Methods: A Reconnaissance Mission Jan-Willem Romeijn
X Philosophy and the Humanities
10.1 Making the Humanities Scientific: Brentano’s Project of Philosophy as Science Carlo Ierna
10.2 The Weimar Origins of Political Theory: A Humanities Interdiscipline David L. Marshall
XI The Humanities and the Social Sciences
11.1 Explaining Verstehen: Max Weber’s Views on Explanation in the Humanities Jeroen Bouterse
11.2 Discovering Sexuality: The Status of Literature as Evidence Robert Deam Tobin
11.3 The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in the Long Struggle for a Humanistic Sociology Marinus Ossewaarde
11.4 Sociology and the Proliferation of Knowledge: La Condition Humaine Bram Kempers
11.5 Inhumanity in the Humanities: On a Rare Consensus in the Human Sciences Abram de Swaan
XII The Humanities in Society
12.1 The Making and Persisting of Modern German Humanities: Balancing Acts between Autonomy and Social Relevance Vincent Gengnagel and Julian Hamann
12.2 Critique and Theory in the History of the Modern Humanities Paul Jay
Epilogue
Toward a History of Western Knowledges: Sketching Together the Histories of the Humanities and the Natural Sciences John V. Pickstone
About the Authors
List of Figures
Index
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
