Philology : the forgotten origins of the modern humanities
by Turner, James, 1946- (Author)
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Table of Contents:
- From the first philologists to 1800. "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
- On the brink of the modern humanities, 1800 to the mid-nineteenth 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
- The modern humanities in the modern university, the mid-nineteenth to the twentieth century. "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.