Philology The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities 1st Edition by James Turner ISBN 978-0691168586 069116858X

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ISBN 10:  069116858X

ISBN 13:  978-0691168586

Author: James Turner

A prehistory of today’s humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century

Many today do not recognize the word, but “philology” was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences. How did it become little more than an archaic word?

In Philology, the first history of Western humanistic learning as a connected whole ever published in English, James Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university. The humanities today face a crisis of relevance, if not of meaning and purpose. Understanding their common origins―and what they still share―has never been more urgent.

Table of contents: 

PART I. FROM THE FIRST PHILOLOGISTS TO 1800

PART I. Introduction

“Cloistered Bookworms, Quarreling Endlessly in the Muses’ Bird-Cage”: FROM GREEK ANTIQUITY TO CIRCA 1400

“A Complete Mastery of Antiquity”: RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, AND BEYOND

“A Voracious and Undistinguishing Appetite”: BRITISH PHILOLOGY TO THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

“Deep Erudition Ingeniously Applied”: REVOLUTIONS OF THE LATER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

PART II. ON THE BRINK OF THE MODERN HUMANITIES, 1800 TO THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

PART II. Introduction

“The Similarity of Structure Which Pervades All Languages”: FROM PHILOLOGY TO LINGUISTICS, 1800–1850

“Genuinely National Poetry and Prose”: LITERARY PHILOLOGY AND LITERARY STUDIES, 1800–1860

“An Epoch in Historical Science”: THE CIVILIZED PAST, 1800–1850

“Grammatical and Exegetical Tact”: BIBLICAL PHILOLOGY AND ITS OTHERS, 1800–1860

PART III. THE MODERN HUMANITIES IN THE MODERN UNIVERSITY, THE MID-NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

PART III. Introduction

“This Newly Opened Mine of Scientific Inquiry”: BETWEEN HISTORY AND NATURE: LINGUISTICS AFTER 1850

“Painstaking Research Quite Equal to Mathematical Physics”: LITERATURE, 1860–1920

“No Tendency toward Dilettantism”: THE CIVILIZED PAST AFTER 1850

“The Field Naturalists of Human Nature”: ANTHROPOLOGY CONGEALS INTO A DISCIPLINE, 1840–1910

“The Highest and Most Engaging of the Manifestations of Human Nature”: BIBLICAL PHILOLOGY AND THE RISE OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES AFTER 1860

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