New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780199665211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 400 str.

Rens Bod

Opis

Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present. There are already historical studies of musicology, logic, art history, linguistics, and historiography, but this volume gathers these, and many other humanities disciplines, into a single coherent account.

Recenzje

In case anyone reading this review is not yet impressed, the author takes care, under each heading, to discuss developments not just in Europe but also (when appropriate) in India, China, and the civilization of Islam. The result is undeniably impressive — and hugely informative.

O autorze

Rens Bod is a professor of humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He is the initiator of the conference and book series The Making of the Humanities (2008, 2010, 2012). Among his other books are Beyond Grammar (1998), Probabilistic Linguistics (2003), Data-Oriented Parsing (2003) and the Dutch monograph De Vergeten Wetenschappen (The Forgotten Sciences, 2010) which was translated into four languages.