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	The Making of the Humanities: Volume II: From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines Edited by Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, and Thijs Weststeijn Amsterdam University Press, 2013 Library of Congress AZ341.M34 2010 \| Dewey Decimal 940.2 While it is clear that around 1800 the humanities as a discipline rose to prominence, it is less clear what the exact nature of this shift in academia was. Was it a sudden revolution caused by a momentary but powerful change in the zeitgeist or the turning point of a much longer process? In this volume, the editors have selected a series of essays that look at the origins of the humanities and find that long before 1800 the concept of the humanities was already at the fore. The shift around 1800 was thus mostly institutional, not theoretical. The Making of the Humanities traces this new finding through a broad range of disciplines including literary theory, linguistics, art history, and musicology. Expand Description
	The Making of the Humanities, Volume III: The Modern Humanities Edited by Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, and Thijs Weststeijn Amsterdam University Press, 2014 Library of Congress AZ341.M34 2010 \| Dewey Decimal 940.2 This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, survey the rise of the humanities in interaction with the natural and social sciences, offering new perspectives on the interaction between disciplines in Europe and Asia and new insights generated by digital humanities. Expand Description
	The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678): Painter, Writer, and Courtier Edited by Thijs Weststeijn Amsterdam University Press, 2013 Samuel van Hoogstraten was not only one of Rembrandt’s most successful pupils but also a versatile painter in his own right. His experiments in optical illusion also attracted the interest of the natural scientists of his time, and he wrote some of the first Dutch novels, plays, and a treatise on painting. This rich interdisciplinary study examines how van Hoogstraten understood the relationship between art, literature, and science and how these reflected the general views of his time. Bringing to the fore hitherto unknown works, the book is an important contribution to our understanding of van Hoogstraten’s life and art. Expand Description

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3 books about Weststeijn, Thijs

The Making of the Humanities

Volume II: From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines

Edited by Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, and Thijs Weststeijn

Amsterdam University Press, 2013

While it is clear that around 1800 the humanities as a discipline rose to prominence, it is less clear what the exact nature of this shift in academia was. Was it a sudden revolution caused by a momentary but powerful change in the zeitgeist or the turning point of a much longer process? In this volume, the editors have selected a series of essays that look at the origins of the humanities and find that long before 1800 the concept of the humanities was already at the fore. The shift around 1800 was thus mostly institutional, not theoretical. The Making of the Humanities traces this new finding through a broad range of disciplines including literary theory, linguistics, art history, and musicology.

The Making of the Humanities, Volume III

The Modern Humanities

Edited by Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, and Thijs Weststeijn

Amsterdam University Press, 2014

This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, survey the rise of the humanities in interaction with the natural and social sciences, offering new perspectives on the interaction between disciplines in Europe and Asia and new insights generated by digital humanities.

The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678)

Painter, Writer, and Courtier

Edited by Thijs Weststeijn

Amsterdam University Press, 2013

Samuel van Hoogstraten was not only one of Rembrandt’s most successful pupils but also a versatile painter in his own right. His experiments in optical illusion also attracted the interest of the natural scientists of his time, and he wrote some of the first Dutch novels, plays, and a treatise on painting. This rich interdisciplinary study examines how van Hoogstraten understood the relationship between art, literature, and science and how these reflected the general views of his time. Bringing to the fore hitherto unknown works, the book is an important contribution to our understanding of van Hoogstraten’s life and art.