The making of the humanities. Volume II, From early modern to modern disciplines /
While it is clear that around 1800 the humanities as a discipline rose to prominence, it is less clear what the exact nature of this shift in academia was. Was it a sudden revolution caused by a momentary but powerful change in the zeitgeist or the turning point of a much longer process? In this vol...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2012.
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| Summary: | While it is clear that around 1800 the humanities as a discipline rose to prominence, it is less clear what the exact nature of this shift in academia was. Was it a sudden revolution caused by a momentary but powerful change in the zeitgeist or the turning point of a much longer process? In this volume, the editors have selected a series of essays that look at the origins of the humanities and find that long before 1800 the concept of the humanities was already at the fore. The shift around 1800 was thus mostly institutional, not theoretical. The Making of the Humanities traces this new findin. |
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| Item Description: | Contains papers presented at a conference held 2010 at the University of Amsterdam. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (427 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048517336 9048517338 9789048517343 9048517346 |