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- English
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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 originsâand what they still shareâhas never been more urgent.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Prologue
- Conventions
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. From the First Philologists to 1800
- Part II. On the Brink of the Modern Humanities, 1800 to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
- Part III. The Modern Humanities in the Modern University, the Mid-Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index