Writing the History of the Humanities: Questions, Themes, and Approaches (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350199101)

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023

What are the humanities? As the cluster of disciplines historically grouped together as "humanities" has grown and diversified to include media studies and digital studies alongside philosophy, art history and musicology to name a few, the need to clearly define the field is pertinent.

Herman Paul leads a stellar line-up of esteemed and early-career scholars to provide an overview of the themes, questions and methods that are central to current research on the history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century humanities. This exciting addition to the successful Writing History series will draw from a wide range of case-studies from diverse fields, as classical philology, art history, and Biblical studies, to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the field.

In doing so, this ground-breaking book challenges the rigid distinctions between disciplines and show the variety of prisms through which historians of the humanities study the past.

Author: Herman Paul
ISBN-10: 1350199109
ISBN-13: 9781350199101
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2022
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2023