Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by James Turner

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

James Turner

576 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth centuryMany today do not recognize the word, but philology was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Gre...

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