Table of Contents

Preface
1: Introduction: The Quest for Principles and Patterns
2: Antiquity: The Dawn of the 'Humanities'
3: Middle Ages: The Universal and the Particular
4: Early Modern Era: The Unity of the Humanities
5: Modern Era: The Humanities Renewed
6: Conclusions: Insights from the Humanities that Changed the World
Appendix A. A Note about Method
Appendix B. Most Important Chinese Dynasties

About the Author

Rens Bod is a professor of humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He is the initiator of the conference and book series The Making of the Humanities (2008, 2010, 2012). Among his other books are Beyond Grammar (1998), Probabilistic Linguistics (2003), Data-Oriented Parsing (2003) and the Dutch monograph De Vergeten Wetenschappen (The Forgotten Sciences, 2010) which was translated into four languages.

Reviews

`A New History of the Humanities is what is needed now: a publicly accessible yet scholarly work that illuminates what the humanities have been, still are, and may be for the peoples of this world.'
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