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The Republic of Letters mapping the Republic of Letters: Jacob Brucker’s Pinacotheca and its antecedents
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[Review of] Roger Paulin, The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel: Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry
No full textA Paradigm for What?
No full textReview of: Henk Borgdorff (2012) The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia. Leiden: Leiden University Press, xvii, 277 pp.Review of: Henk Borgdorff (2012) The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia. Leiden: Leiden University Press, xvii, 277 pp
Scholarship as Bricolage:‘Hybrid Works’ and Styles of Reasoning in the Enlightenment-Era Humanities
No full textEighteenth-century scholarship is full of hybrid works: works that integrate elements from different fields and genres, sometimes from different authors and different periods, each with their own forms of organization and argumentative/rhetorical structures. This article analyses such hybrid works as documents of changes in the architecture of knowledge. Applying Ian Hacking’s notion of “styles of reasoning” to the history of the humanities, it shows how this bricolage reflects the uses of different models for transforming information into knowledge. The article focuses on three eighteenth-century genres that are particularly representative of a style of reasoning: histoire philosophique, grammaire générale, and historia literaria, and how they come together in hybrid works such as Gébelin’s Monde Primitif (1773–82), Monboddo’s Origin and Progress of Language (1773–93), Astle’s The Origin and Progress of Writing (1784), and Heeren’s Ideen (1793–96; 1824–26). Tracing the genealogies of these genres and their intersections, we can discern broader developments in eighteenth-century ideas of history, language, literature, and knowledge, from their early modern origins to the making of the modern humanities
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No full textRecensie van: Rens Bod (2010) De vergeten wetenschappen. Een geschiedenis van de humaniora. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 520 p.Recensie van: Rens Bod (2010) De vergeten wetenschappen. Een geschiedenis van de humaniora. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 520 p
Expanding the Comparative View: Humboldt’s 'Über die Kawi-Sprache' and its language materials
No full textWilhelm von Humboldt’s Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel Java can be seen as the first comparative grammar of non-Indo-European languages. While Humboldt’s practice of collecting and re-assembling linguistic information has been documented extensively in the Berlin Academy edition of his Schriften zur Sprachwissenschaft, this article puts his work in perspective by tracing it back to its sources and treating it as part of a wider parallel process of expanding the comparative view. In three sections, this article discusses 1) the research agendas of the three British colonial scholars upon whose works Humboldt drew for Malayan languages; 2) to which extent his Polynesian language material was ‘rawer’ than these compendia; and 3) how he reworked this material into a comparative Malayo-Polynesian grammar. Finally, a comparison is drawn with the work of his assistant and continuator Eduard Buschmann, and with Horatio Hale’s slightly later survey of the languages of the Pacific.sponsorship: Research for this article was funded by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from FWO Research Foundation - Flanders. (FWO Research Foundation - Flanders)status: Publishe
[Review of] Susanna Berger, The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment
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