The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present
This study book by Rens Bod offers an extensive history of the humanities, from antiquity to the present. It focuses on pattern recognition in texts, art, music, and languages.
Description
A New History of the Humanities presents, for the first time, a coherent overview of the humanities across the centuries, from antiquity to modern times. It brings together separate studies on, among other things, musicology, logic, art history, and linguistics into one clear narrative.
At its core is scholars’ search across different cultures for general principles and patterns in human cultural expressions. The book examines how trust is established in historical narratives, which rules determine musical intervals, and how grammatical structures are established. It also discusses the role of digital methods in this pattern recognition. Bod argues that the traditional divide between the exact sciences and the humanities is misleading, because pattern recognition lies at the heart of both disciplines.
Product specifications
- Author: Rens Bod (Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication date: 2015-11-12
- Number of pages: 400
- ISBN: 9780198758396
- Theme: General and world history
- BISAC: HISTORY / World
About the author
Rens Bod is a professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on linguistics and the history of the humanities.