How to Make a Revolution: Revolutionary Rhetoric in the European Humanities around 1800
Floris Solleveld
Works of scholarship in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries abounded programmatic proclamations new disciplines critical dismissal all predecessors. In this article I make an inventory different kinds such explicit implicit revolutionary rhetoric study language history around 1800. Analyzing these as performative speech acts, identify various criteria according to which acts can be said fail or succeed. Together, they raise question what extent notion a “scientific revolution” is applicable at developments humanities, roughly analogous “second scientific that some authors have identified same period. Although none explicitly proclaims revolution accumulation it serves show does not conflict with actor’s categories cannot written off anachronistic.
History of Humanities|Lirias (KU Leuven)