Philological Studies with English Illustrations
Author : Josiah Willard Gibbs
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 1857
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Josiah Willard Gibbs
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 1857
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Ori Sela
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0231545177
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship and identity. With the power to construct the textual past, philology has the potential to shape both individual and collective identities, and its rise to prominence consequently deeply affected contemporaneous political, social, and cultural agendas. Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin (1728–1804), one of the most distinguished scholars of the Qing dynasty, to tell this story. China’s Philological Turn traces scholars’ social networks and the production of knowledge, considering the texts they studied along with their reading practices and the assumptions about knowledge, facts, and truth that came with them. The book considers fundamental issues of eighteenth-century intellectual life: the tension between antiquity’s elevated status and the question of what antiquity actually was; the status of scientific knowledge, especially astronomy, mathematics, and calendrical studies; and the relationship between learned debates and cultural anxieties, especially scholars’ self-characterization and collective identity. Sela brings to light manuscripts, biographies, letters, handwritten notes, epitaphs, and more to highlight the creativity and openness of his subjects. A pioneering book in the cultural history of intellectuals across disciplinary boundaries, China’s Philological Turn reconstructs the history of eighteenth-century Chinese learning and its long-lasting consequences.
Author : Bruce M. Metzger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004379282
Author : Maria del Mar Jiménez-Cervantes Arnao
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 144387521X
Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies are the three main research areas within Philology. Scientific production, such as conferences and journals, has tended towards specialization, and has been traditionally classified according to separate disciplines and languages. However, this volume offers a holistic view of the wide area of Philology, therefore allowing the permeability of the three areas mentioned above. As such, this book shows that the line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies is actually very thin. This volume is composed of a miscellanea of philological studies dealing with various trends in Modern Language research. It looks at three languages in particular: Spanish, English and French, with a special relevance to the first two.
Author : H. Momma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521518865
An exploration of how philology contributed to the study of English language and literature in the nineteenth century.
Author : James Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 069116858X
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.
Author : Gerald Hartung
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110568497
Aristotelian philosophy played an important part in the history of 19th century philosophy and science but has been largely neglected by researchers. A key element in the newly emerging historiography of ancient philosophy, Aristotelian philosophy served at the same time as a corrective guide in a wide range of projects in philosophy. This volume examines both aspects of this reception history.
Author : Nadia Altschul
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226016218
This work examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the 19th-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative 'The Poem of the Cid'.
Author : Joachim Grage
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527500438
Comparative philology was one of the most prolific fields of knowledge in the humanities during the 19th century. Based on the discovery of the Indo-European language family, it seemed to admit the reconstruction of a common history of European languages, and even mythologies, literatures, and people. However, it also represented a way to establish geographies of belonging and difference in the context of 19th century nation-building and identity politics. In spite of a widely acknowledged consensus about the principles and methods of comparative philology, the results depended on local conditions and practices. If Scandinavians were considered to be Germanic or not, for example, was up to identity politics that differed in Berlin, Strasbourg, Copenhagen and Paris. The contributors here elaborate these dynamics through analyses of the changing and conflicting versions of imaginative geographies that the actors of comparative philology evoked by using Scandinavian literatures and cultures. They also show how these seemingly delocalized scientific models depended on ever-different local needs and practices. Through this, the book represents the first distinctly transnational dynamic geography and history of the philological knowledge of the North – not only as a history of a scientific discourse, but also as a result of doing and performing scientific work.
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Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :