The Rise of Philology. The Comparative Method, the Historicist Turn and the Surreptitious Influence of Giambattista Vico

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction: The Dawn of the Modern Humanities 9
4. I. Linguistics and Philology
5. The Rise of Philology. The Comparative Method, the Historicist Turn and the Surreptitious Influence of Giambattista Vico 23
6. Linguistics ‘ante litteram’. Compiling and Transmitting Views on the Diversity and Kinship of Languages before the Nineteenth Century 37
7. The Rise of General Linguistics as an Academic Discipline. Georg von der Gabelentz as a Co-Founder 55
8. II. The Humanities and the Sciences
9. The Mutual Making of Sciences and Humanities. Willebrord Snellius, Jacob Golius and the Early Modern Entanglement of Mathematics and Philology 73
10. A ‘Human’ Science: Hawkins’s Science of Music 93
11. Bopp the Builder. Discipline Formation as Hybridization: The Case of Comparative Linguistics 103
12. III. Writing History and Intellectual History
13. Nineteenth-Century Historicism and Its Predecessors: Historical Experience, Historical Ontology and Historical Method 131
14. Fact and Fancy in Nineteenth-Century Historiography and Fiction: Th e Case of Macaulay and Roidis 149
15. The Humanities as the Stronghold of Freedom: John Milton’s Areopagitica and John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty 167
16. IV. The Impact of the East
17. The Impact on the European Humanities of Early Reports from Catholic Missionaries from China, Tibet and Japan between 1600 and 1700 185
18. The Middle Kingdom in the Low Countries: Sinology in the Seventeenth- Century Netherlands 209
19. The Oriental Origins of Orientalism: The Case of Dimitrie Cantemir 243
20. V. Artworks and Texts
21. The Role of Emotions in the Development of Artistic Theory and the System of Literary Genres 267
22. Philology and the History of Art 283
23. VI. Literature and Rhetoric
24. Bourgeois versus Aristocratic Models of Scholarship: Medieval Studies at the Académie des Inscriptions, 1701-1751 303
25. Ancients, Moderns and the Gothic in Eighteenth-Century Historiography 321
26. The Afterlife of Rhetoric in Hobbes, Vico and Nietzsche 337
27. VII. Academic Communities
28. The Documents of Feith: The Centralization of the Archive in Nineteenth- Century Historiography 357
29. Humboldt in Copenhagen: Discipline Formation in the Humanities at the University of Copenhagen in the Nineteenth Century 377
30. The Scholarly Self: Ideals of Intellectual Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Leiden 397
31. Contributors 413
32. List of Figures 419
33. Index 421