Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities Turner James
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities Turner James A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth centuryMany today do not recognize the word, but…
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Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities Turner James
A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth centuryMany 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. 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. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences.
Understanding their common origins--and The humanities today face a crisis of relevance, if not of meaning and purpose.
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