4.2. History of Religions in the Making

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Introduction 13
4. I The Humanities and the Sciences
5. 1.1. Objectivity and Impartiality 27
6. 1.2. The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century 43
7. 1.3. The Interaction between Sciences and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Materialism 53
8. 1.4. The Best Story of the World 65
9. II The Science of Language
10. 2.1. The Wolf in Itself 81
11. 2.2. Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics 97
12. 2.3. Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor- Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian Language1 113
13. III Writing History
14. 3.1. A Domestic Culture 129
15. 3.2. History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular 145
16. 3.3. The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline 157
17. 3.4. Manuals on Historical Method 171
18. 3.5. The Peculiar Maturation of the History of Science 183
19. IV Classical Studies and Philology
20. 4.1. Quellenforschung 207
21. 4.2. History of Religions in the Making 219
22. 4.3. ‘Big Science’ in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of Antiquity 233
23. 4.4. New Philology and Ancient Editors 251
24. 4.5. What Books Are Made of 265
25. V Literary and Theater Studies
26. 5.1. Furio Jesi and the Culture of the Right 283
27. 5.2 Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950 299
28. 5.3. Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates 313
29. VI Art History and Archeology
30. 6.1. Embracing World Art 329
31. 6.2 .Generic Classification and Habitual Subject Matter 345
32. 6.3. The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and the Making of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929 359
33. VII Musicology and Aesthetics
34. 7.1. Between Sciences and Humanities 379
35. 7.2. Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds 391
36. 7.3. The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of Art History 403
37. VIII East and West
38. 8.1. The Making of Oriental Studies 415
39. 8.2. The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s 431
40. 8.3. Cross-Cultural Epistemology 449
41. IX Information Science and Digital Humanities
42. 9.1. Historical Roots of Information Sciences and the Making of E-Humanities 465
43. 9.2. Toward a Humanities of the Digital? 479
44. 9.3. A Database, Nationalist Scholarship, and Materialist Epistemology in Netherlandish Philology 495
45. 9.4. Clio’s Talkative Daughter Goes Digital 511
46. 9.5. The Humanities’ New Methods 527
47. X Philosophy and the Humanities
48. 10.1. Making the Humanities Scientific 543
49. 10.2. The Weimar Origins of Political Theory 555
50. XI The Humanities and the Social Sciences
51. 11.1. Explaining Verstehen 569
52. 11.2. Discovering Sexuality 583
53. 11.3. The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in the Long Struggle for a Humanistic Sociology 597
54. 11.4. Sociology and the Proliferation of Knowledge 609
55. 11.5. Inhumanity in the Humanities 627
56. XII The Humanities in Society
57. 12.1. The Making and Persisting of Modern German Humanities 641
58. 12.2. Critique and Theory in the History of the Modern Humanities 655
59. Epilogue 667
60. About the Authors 687
61. List of Figures 699
62. Index 703