Rens Bod is Vici-Laureate and Full Professor in Computational Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. Books: Beyond Grammar (CSLI/Cambridge University Press), Probabilistic Linguistics (MIT Press), Data-Oriented Parsing (University of Chicago Press), A New History of the Humanities (Oxford University Press). Jaap Maat is Professor in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Books: Philosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century: Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz (Synthese Historical Library, Kluwer, 2004), George Dalgarno on Universal Language (Oxford University Press, 2001). Thijs Weststeijn is a researcher and lecturer at the department of Art History of the University of Amsterdam.
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"Attention is fruitfully devoted to the emergence (...) of what are recognizably the modern academic disciplines of world literature, art history, music history, and linguistics, among others.(...) [An] excellent collection. . . . Highly recommended." - Choice Magazine "The Making of the Humanities should be in every scholar’s library: beautifully and carefully produced and eschewing jargon, this volume is a lucid description of what the humanities have offered and our responsibility in taking them up." - Katherine Arens, Isis
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Part I. The Humanities and the Sciences; Part II. The Science of Language; Part III. Writing History; Part IV. Classical Studies and Philology; Part V. Literary and Theatre Studies; Part VI. Art History and Archaeology; Part VII. Musicology; Part VIII. East and West; Part IX. Information Science and Digital Humanities; Part X. Philosophy and the Humanities; Part XI. The Humanities and the Social Sciences; Part XII. The Humanities in Society.
