Thijs Weststeijn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1187767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thijs Weststeijn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thijs |
| FAMILY NAME | Weststeijn |
| SIGNATURE | WESTSTEIJN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Against Knowledge in the Humanities
A common argument in defense of the humanities is that they help us understand human experience and ultimately teach us what it means to be human. This argument, however, is both pretentious and too limited. Since poets, musicians, and artists often assert that they do not know what they are doing, it may be presumptuous for humanists to claim to know better. Artists’ experiments with natural and animal materials as well as their engagement with …
Celebrating a Decade of History of Humanities
Inventing the Renaissance
Mythology, Chronology, Idolatry
Saint Confucius, the Chinese Adam, and a Broken Mirror
Early European attempts at writing a comprehensive history of the world struggled in particular with China, whose greater antiquity was difficult to accommodate with the biblical chronology of Creation and the Flood; the Chinese might also have traveled to the Americas before the Europeans. The fulcrum of this debate was the Dutch Republic, where innovative schools of historiography and biblical criticism went hand in hand with interest in East A…
Early Encounters Between East Asia and Europe
A New Field
Previous articleNext article FreeEditorialA New Field: History of HumanitiesRens Bod, Julia Kursell, Jaap Maat, and Thijs WeststeijnRens Bod, Julia Kursell, Jaap Maat, and Thijs WeststeijnPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThese are exciting times for the humanities. The impressive corpus of knowledge that the humanities have disco…
Constructing Confucius in the Low Countries
The first translation of Confucius's Analects into a European language was a Dutch book by Pieter van Hoorn. Printed in Batavia in 1675, it predated the better-known Latin translation, Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687). Whereas the introduction of Confucius in the West has often been regarded as a project of the Jesuit mission, an exploration of the Netherlandish situation points out that the 'manufacturing' of Confucianism was a variegated an…
The Making of the Humanities
The Wolf in Itself The Uses of Enchantment in the Development of Modern Linguistics
Making of the Humanities, Volume III
Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds Stumpf, Hornbostel, and Comparative Musicology in Berlin
The ancient Greeks already used to give ethnic names to their different scales, and observations on differences in music of the various nations always raised the interest of musicians and philosophers. Yet, it was only in the late nineteenth century that “comparative musicology” became an institutional science. An important role in this process was played by Carl Stumpf, a former pupil of Brentano’s who pioneered these researches in Berlin. Stump…
The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century Not Separate Yet Unequal
The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678)
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 …
Universal Art of Samuel Van Hoogstraten
How to Create Beauty
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The Making of the Humanities
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 humanit…
The Making of the Humanities
This much-awaited second volume investigates the changes in subject, method and institutional context of the humanistic disciplines around 1800, offering a wealth of insights for specialists and students alike. Point of departure is the pivotal question whether there was a paradigm shift in the humanities around 1800 or whether these changes were part of a much longer process. The authors provide an overarching perspective including philology, mu…
The Germanic origins of art
Seventeenth-century writers about Dutch art and language, wishing to promote a vernacular culture as a counterweight to the dominant ideals of Southern Europe, developed a view of Germanic antiquity. Exporting their visual art, the Dutch brought linguistic attitudes suggestive of a common Germanic history to Britain, as three authors exemplify: Richard Verstegan, Franciscus Junius and Samuel van Hoogstraten. Their writings presented simplicity as…
Spinoza sinicus
Departing from Pierre Bayle's discussion of Spinoza in the entry 'Japan' in his Dictionaire, this article discusses how debates about the Far East functioned as a foil for the polemics generated by the Radical Enlightement. The central point of investigation is a debate between Gerard Vossius and Georg Hornius, integrating three main issues where ideas about the East challenged accepted European authority: sacred history, republicanism, and natur…
Spinoza sinicus
Departing from Pierre Bayle's discussion of Spinoza in the entry 'Japan' in his Dictionaire, this article discusses how debates about the Far East functioned as a foil for the polemics generated by the Radical Enlightement. The central point of investigation is a debate between Gerard Vossius and Georg Hornius, integrating three main issues where ideas about the East challenged accepted European authority: sacred history, republicanism, and natur…
A New Field
Previous articleNext article FreeEditorialA New Field: History of HumanitiesRens Bod, Julia Kursell, Jaap Maat, and Thijs WeststeijnRens Bod, Julia Kursell, Jaap Maat, and Thijs WeststeijnPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThese are exciting times for the humanities. The impressive corpus of knowledge that the humanities have disco…
Constructing Confucius in the Low Countries
The first translation of Confucius's Analects into a European language was a Dutch book by Pieter van Hoorn. Printed in Batavia in 1675, it predated the better-known Latin translation, Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687). Whereas the introduction of Confucius in the West has often been regarded as a project of the Jesuit mission, an exploration of the Netherlandish situation points out that the 'manufacturing' of Confucianism was a variegated an…
The Making of the Humanities
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 humanit…
The Making of the Humanities
This much-awaited second volume investigates the changes in subject, method and institutional context of the humanistic disciplines around 1800, offering a wealth of insights for specialists and students alike. Point of departure is the pivotal question whether there was a paradigm shift in the humanities around 1800 or whether these changes were part of a much longer process. The authors provide an overarching perspective including philology, mu…
Spinoza sinicus
Departing from Pierre Bayle's discussion of Spinoza in the entry 'Japan' in his Dictionaire, this article discusses how debates about the Far East functioned as a foil for the polemics generated by the Radical Enlightement. The central point of investigation is a debate between Gerard Vossius and Georg Hornius, integrating three main issues where ideas about the East challenged accepted European authority: sacred history, republicanism, and natur…
The Germanic origins of art
Seventeenth-century writers about Dutch art and language, wishing to promote a vernacular culture as a counterweight to the dominant ideals of Southern Europe, developed a view of Germanic antiquity. Exporting their visual art, the Dutch brought linguistic attitudes suggestive of a common Germanic history to Britain, as three authors exemplify: Richard Verstegan, Franciscus Junius and Samuel van Hoogstraten. Their writings presented simplicity as…
The Making of the Humanities
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 humanit…
The Making of the Humanities
This much-awaited second volume investigates the changes in subject, method and institutional context of the humanistic disciplines around 1800, offering a wealth of insights for specialists and students alike. Point of departure is the pivotal question whether there was a paradigm shift in the humanities around 1800 or whether these changes were part of a much longer process. The authors provide an overarching perspective including philology, mu…
The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678)
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 …
Universal Art of Samuel Van Hoogstraten
How to Create Beauty
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Making of the Humanities
The Wolf in Itself The Uses of Enchantment in the Development of Modern Linguistics
Making of the Humanities, Volume III
Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds Stumpf, Hornbostel, and Comparative Musicology in Berlin
The ancient Greeks already used to give ethnic names to their different scales, and observations on differences in music of the various nations always raised the interest of musicians and philosophers. Yet, it was only in the late nineteenth century that “comparative musicology” became an institutional science. An important role in this process was played by Carl Stumpf, a former pupil of Brentano’s who pioneered these researches in Berlin. Stump…
The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century Not Separate Yet Unequal
A New Field
Previous articleNext article FreeEditorialA New Field: History of HumanitiesRens Bod, Julia Kursell, Jaap Maat, and Thijs WeststeijnRens Bod, Julia Kursell, Jaap Maat, and Thijs WeststeijnPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThese are exciting times for the humanities. The impressive corpus of knowledge that the humanities have disco…
Constructing Confucius in the Low Countries
The first translation of Confucius's Analects into a European language was a Dutch book by Pieter van Hoorn. Printed in Batavia in 1675, it predated the better-known Latin translation, Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687). Whereas the introduction of Confucius in the West has often been regarded as a project of the Jesuit mission, an exploration of the Netherlandish situation points out that the 'manufacturing' of Confucianism was a variegated an…
Early Encounters Between East Asia and Europe
Saint Confucius, the Chinese Adam, and a Broken Mirror
Early European attempts at writing a comprehensive history of the world struggled in particular with China, whose greater antiquity was difficult to accommodate with the biblical chronology of Creation and the Flood; the Chinese might also have traveled to the Americas before the Europeans. The fulcrum of this debate was the Dutch Republic, where innovative schools of historiography and biblical criticism went hand in hand with interest in East A…
Celebrating a Decade of History of Humanities
Inventing the Renaissance
Mythology, Chronology, Idolatry
Against Knowledge in the Humanities
A common argument in defense of the humanities is that they help us understand human experience and ultimately teach us what it means to be human. This argument, however, is both pretentious and too limited. Since poets, musicians, and artists often assert that they do not know what they are doing, it may be presumptuous for humanists to claim to know better. Artists’ experiments with natural and animal materials as well as their engagement with …
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