The Making of the Humanities: Volume II: From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines by Rens Bod, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9089644555 | 432 pages | PDF | 4,6 MB
While it is clear that around 1800 the humanities as a discipline rose to prominence, it is less clear what the exact nature of this shift in academia was. Was it a sudden revolution caused by a momentary but powerful change in the zeitgeist or the turning point of a much longer process?