Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of
the Humanities offers the first overarching history of the
humanities from Antiquity to the present. There are already
historical studies of musicology, logic, art history, linguistics,
and historiography, but this volume gathers these, and many other
humanities disciplines, into a single coherent account. Its central
theme is the way in which scholars throughout the ages and in
virtually all civilizations have sought to identify patterns in
texts, art, music, languages, literature, and the past. What rules
can we apply if we wish to determine whether a tale about the past
is trustworthy? By what criteria are we to distinguish consonant
from dissonant musical intervals? What rules jointly describe all
possible grammatical sentences in a language? How can modern
digital methods enhance pattern-seeking in the humanities? Rens Bod
contends that the hallowed opposition between the sciences
(mathematical, experimental, dominated by universal laws) and the
humanities (allegedly concerned with unique events and hermeneutic
methods) is a mistake born of a myopic failure to appreciate the
pattern-seeking that lies at the heart of this inquiry. A New
History of the Humanities amounts to a persuasive plea to give
Panini, Valla, Bopp, and countless other often overlooked
intellectual giants their rightful place next to the likes of
Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.
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