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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Other authors / contributors: Bod, Rens, 1965- (Editor), Maat, Jaap (Editor), Weststeijn, Thijs (Editor)
Imprint: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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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 findinches.
Item Description:Contains papers presented at a conference held 2010 at the University of Amsterdam.
Physical Description:1 online resource (427 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789048517336
9048517338
9789048517343
9048517346
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.