Format:
1 online resource (401 pages)
ISBN:
9789048513338
Content:
The first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities.
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Historiography of the Humanities -- I. The Humanities versus the Sciences -- How Comparative Should a Comparative History of the Humanities Be? -- Bridging the Gap -- Music as Science and as Art -- II. The Visual Arts as Liberal Arts -- Representing the World -- Ficino, Diacceto and Michelangelo's -- 'Signs that Signify by Themselves' -- III. Humanism and Heresy -- Giordano Bruno and Metaphor -- 'In Erudition There Is No Heresy' -- IV. Language and Poetics -- Humanism in the Classroom, a Reassessment -- Origins and Principles -- Transitional Texts and Emerging Linguistic Self-Awareness -- V. Linguists and Logicians -- The Changing Relations between Grammar, Rhetoric and Music in the Early Modern Period -- The Artes Sermocinales in Times of Adversity -- VI. Philology and Philosophy -- Manuscript Hunting and the Challenge of Textual Variance in Late Seventeenth-Century Icelandic Studies -- Spinoza in the History of Biblical Scholarship -- The 'Rules of Critique' -- VII. The History of History -- Framing a New Mode of Historical Experience -- Philosophy's Shadow -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- Index.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Table of Contents; Introduction: Historiography of the Humanities; I. The Humanities versus the Sciences; How Comparative Should a Comparative History of the Humanities Be?; Bridging the Gap; Music as Science and as Art; II. The Visual Arts as Liberal Arts; Representing the World; Ficino, Diacceto and Michelangelo's; 'Signs that Signify by Themselves'; III. Humanism and Heresy; Giordano Bruno and Metaphor; 'In Erudition There Is No Heresy'; IV. Language and Poetics; Humanism in the Classroom, a Reassessment; Origins and Principles; Transitional Texts and Emerging Linguistic Self-Awareness
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V. Linguists and LogiciansThe Changing Relations between Grammar, Rhetoric and Music in the Early Modern Period; The Artes Sermocinales in Times of Adversity; VI. Philology and Philosophy; Manuscript Hunting and the Challenge of Textual Variance in Late Seventeenth-Century Icelandic Studies; Spinoza in the History of Biblical Scholarship; The 'Rules of Critique'; VII. The History of History; Framing a New Mode of Historical Experience; Philosophy's Shadow; Contributors; List of Figures; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789089642691
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Making of the Humanities, Volume 1 : Early Modern Europe
Additional Edition:
The making of the humanities ; Vol. 1: Early modern Europe Amsterdam : Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2010 ISBN 9789089642691
Language:
English
Keywords:
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