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Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

By James Turner

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781400850150
DOI
10.1515/9781400850150
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3569064 bytes)
Series
The William G. Bowen Series; 88
Edition
Course Book
Pages
576\574
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 14:54:10

Description

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.

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