Humanities: A New Field
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■ sometimes even defined themselves as primarily concerned with the history and historicity of human endeavors (p. 2)
■ “The Making of the Humanities,” in Amsterdam (2008, 2010) and Rome (2012, 2014) (p. 2)
■ Coluccio Salutati’s (1331–1406) defense of the studia humanitatis as a coherent and independent field: (p. 3)
■ Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911) authoritatively distinguished the humanities (Geisteswissenschaften) from the sciences (Naturwissenschaften) (p. 3)
■ Rather than explaining (erklären) the world in terms of countable and measurable regularities, the humanities attempt to understand (verstehen) the intentions of historical actors; the specific objects investigated by the humanities are “the expressions of the human mind.” (p. 3)
■ Islamic scholarship…studia adabiya (p. 3)
■ the “six arts” that Confucius identified with genteel education were rites and rituals, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy and writing, and mathematics (p. 4)
■ treat literature, philosophy, and history (the triad wen-shi-zhe) as one body of knowledge (p. 4)
■ guoxue (national studies) (p. 4)
■ In English, humanities can refer both to the study of the products of the human mind and to these products themselves. (p. 4)
■ George Makdisi, The Rise of Humanism in Classical Islam (p. 4)
■ Hsiung Ping-chen, “The Evolution of Chinese Humanities,” (p. 4)
■ See Jörg-Dieter Gauger and Günther Rüther, eds., Warum die Geisteswissenschaften Zukunft haben! (Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 2007); Jonathan Bate, ed., The Public Value of the Humanities (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010); Martha Nussbaum, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010); Helen Small, The Value of the Humanities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). (p. 6)