BOOK REVIEW - OLIVIER LE DEUFF, DIGITAL HUMANITIES. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT, LONDON: ISTE, HOBOKEN: WILEY, 2018, 165 P. ISBN 978-1-78630-016-4
BOOK REVIEW - OLIVIER LE DEUFF, DIGITAL HUMANITIES. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT, LONDON: ISTE, HOBOKEN: WILEY, 2018, 165 P. ISBN 978-1-78630-016-4

Summary/Abstract: The contribution proposed for analysis, published in 2018 by ISTE and Wiley, is included in ISTE’s Intellectual Technologies Set coordinated by Jean-Max Noyer and Maryse Carmes. Rather than presenting an exhaustive history of digital humanities, the author, lecturer in Information and Communication Sciences at Bordeaux Montaigne University, manufactures a sketch that traces the origins of digital humanities to the birth of modern science. The paradigm postulated by the author breaks away from the vision of congruence between computer technologies and digital humanities and suggests that, alternatively to the generation of digital humanities by the computing tools, digital humanities precede computer technologies. The thesis proposed by Olivier Le Deuff, however valiant, is also audacious, as the precedents he sets to prove the existence of digital humanities prior to the Digital Revolution may seem strained. As the author himself states, more than a presentation of the history and development of digital humanities, the book ought to be treated as an archeology of knowledge and methodologies, a presentation of the antecedents of the current directions in digital humanities.

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