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

Bod, Rens

 
9780199665211: A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present
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ISBN 10 : 0199665214 ISBN 13 : 9780199665211
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

Its central theme is the way in which scholars throughout the ages and in virtually all civilizations have sought to identify patterns in texts, art, music, languages, literature, and the past. What rules can we apply if we wish to determine whether a tale about the past is trustworthy? By what criteria are we to distinguish consonant from dissonant musical intervals? What rules jointly describe all possible grammatical sentences in a language? How can modern digital methods enhance pattern-seeking in the humanities? Rens Bod contends that the hallowed opposition between the sciences (mathematical, experimental, dominated by universal laws) and the humanities (allegedly concerned with unique events and hermeneutic methods) is a mistake born of a myopic failure to appreciate the pattern-seeking that lies at the heart of this inquiry. A New History of the Humanities amounts to a persuasive plea to give Panini, Valla, Bopp, and countless other often overlooked intellectual giants their rightful place next to the likes of Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199665214
ISBN 13 
9780199665211
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
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