Veins filled with the Diluted Sap of Rationality: A Critical Reply to Rens Bod

Authors

  • Andreas Fickers Royal Netherlands Historical Society

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.9347

Keywords:

digital history, digital humanities, e-humanties, Rens Bod

Abstract

This article argues – in contradiction to the thesis developed by Rens Bod – that the hermeneutic tradition of humanities is not obsolete, especially when trying to understand the opportunities and challenges of using digital technologies for future research. The practice of digital history will have to be based on the critical analysis of the creation, enrichment, editing and retrieval of digital data as much as on the application of classical source criticism and historical contextualisation. If ‘content’ or rather ‘data’ is king in digital humanities, as imagined by Bod, context is its crown – at least for digital historians.

 

This article is part of the forum 'The End of the Humanities 1.0'.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2013-12-16

How to Cite

Fickers, A. (2013). Veins filled with the Diluted Sap of Rationality: A Critical Reply to Rens Bod. BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 128(4), 155–163. https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.9347