Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, Thijs Weststeijn

The Making of the Humanities, Volume III

The Modern Humanities
Herausgeber: Bod, Rens; Weststeijn, Thijs; Maat, Jaap

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Amsterdam University Press
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 716
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 159mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1293g
• ISBN-13: 9789089645166
• ISBN-10: 9089645160
• Artikelnr.: 40585998

Autorenporträt

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). Thijs Weststeijn is a researcher and lecturer at the department of Art History of the University of Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

I. The Humanities and the Sciences
II. The Science of Language
III. Writing History
IV. Classical Studies and Philology
V. Literary and Theatre Studies
VI. Art History and Archaeology
VII. Musicology
VIII. East and West
IX. Information Science and Digital Humanities
X. Philosophy and the Humanities
XI. The Humanities and the Social Sciences
XII. The Humanities in Society.