Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 378 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781350199071
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9781350199088
Serie:
Writing History
Inhalt:
Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: What is the History of the Humanities? -- The World of the Humanities -- Genealogies of the Humanities -- Defending the Humanities -- Two Additional Factors -- A Heterogeneous Field -- Questions, Themes, Approaches -- Part I Definitions and Backgrounds -- 1 What are the Humanities? A Short History of Concepts and Classifications -- Introduction -- Geisteswissenschaften -- Geisteswissenschaften and Moral Sciences -- Moral Sciences and Sciences Morales -- Arts, Lettres, Humanités, and Humanities -- Conclusion -- 2 From Philology to the Humanities: Fragmentation and Discipline Formation in the United Kingdom and United States -- 3 The Humanities in Crisis: Comparative Perspectives on a Recurring Motif -- Introduction: Crisis at the Heart of the Humanities -- Comparative Components of Crisis: Disentangling a Monolithic Term -- Distinctive Intellectual Cultures: An Epistemological Aspect -- Golden Ages and Narratives of Decline: A Chronological Aspect -- Transnational Comparisons and Intertwined Discourses of Crisis: A Geographical Aspect -- Conclusion: Historicizing a Recurring Motif -- Part II Research Practices -- 4 Modernizing the Comparative Method: Marx and Darwin -- Introduction -- The Prehistory of Modern Comparatism -- Romantic Formations of the Comparative Method -- Comparative Linguistics and the Analysis of Race -- Marx's Anatomy -- Darwin's Words -- Conclusion -- 5 Language and the Mapping of the World: Nineteenth-Century Linguistics in Relation to Ethnology and Geography -- Introduction -- Language as Data -- Language as a Specimen -- The Natural History of Language -- 6 "Big"-ness in Action: Notes from a Lexicon -- Introduction -- Big Organization -- Big Equipment -- Big Time -- "Big" Future?
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9781350199064
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9781350199101
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Sprache:
Englisch
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