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Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

Turner, James

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Series: William G. Bowen, Book 88

PhilosophyLinguisticsGeneral Education

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ISBN10: 069116858X
ISBN13: 9780691168586
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Sep 15 2015
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 origins--and what they still share--has never been more urgent.

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