Philology : The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities / James Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, James, author.

Series:

William G. Bowen memorial series in higher education

The William G. Bowen Series ; 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities.

Historical linguistics.

Philology--History.

Philology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (575 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

Conventions

Acknowledgments

PART I . From the First Philologists to 1800

1. "Cloistered Bookworms, Quarreling Endlessly in the Muses' Bird-Cage": From Greek Antiquity to circa 1400

2. "A Complete Mastery of Antiquity": Renaissance, Reformation, and Beyond

3. "A Voracious and Undistinguishing Appetite": British Philology to the Mid-Eighteenth Century

4. "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

5. "The Similarity of Structure Which Pervades All Languages": From Philology to Linguistics, 1800-1850

6. "Genuinely National Poetry and Prose": Literary Philology and Literary Studies, 1800-1860

7. "An Epoch in Historical Science": The Civilized Past, 1800-1850

8. "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

9. "This Newly Opened Mine of Scientific Inquiry": Between History and Nature: Linguistics after 1850

10. "Painstaking Research Quite Equal to Mathematical Physics": Literature, 1860-1920

11. "No Tendency toward Dilettantism": The Civilized Past after 1850

12. "The Field Naturalists of Human Nature": Anthropology Congeals into a Discipline, 1840-1910

13. "The Highest and Most Engaging of the Manifestations of Human Nature": Biblical Philology and the Rise of Religious Studies after 1860

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-507) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691168586

069116858X

9781400850150

1400850150

OCLC:

876510854