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Feeling and Classical Philology: Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920

by: Guthenke, C.

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Category: Reception of Antiquity
Code: 25738
ISBN-13: 9781107104235 / 978-1-107-10423-5
ISBN-10: 1107104238 / 1-107-10423-8
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2020
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 223
Book Condition: New
Comments: Part of Classics after Antiquity

Nineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern humanities. In this book, Constanze Güthenke shows how a language of love and a longing for closeness with a personified antiquity have lastingly shaped modern professional reading habits, notions of biography, and the self-image of scholars and teachers. She argues that a discourse of love was instrumental in expressing the challenges of specialisation and individual formation (Bildung), and in particular for the key importance of a Platonic scene of learning and instruction for imagining the modern scholar. The book is based on detailed readings of programmatic texts from, among others, Wolf, Schleiermacher, Boeckh, Thiersch, Dilthey, Wilamowitz and Nietzsche. It makes a case for revising established narratives, but also for finding new value in imagining distance and an absence of nostalgic longing for antiquity.

Revises standard narratives about the history of the discipline of classical studies, emphasizing the role of the emotions
Explains foundational debates of the discipline of classics in Germany which have influenced the subsequent development of the humanities in general
Provides a new critical interpretation that questions the continuing importance of biography in historical and philological scholarship

Table of Contents
Introduction: feeling and philology
1. The potter's daughter: longing, Bildung, and the self
2. From the symposium to the seminar: language of love and language of institutions
3. 'So that he unknowingly and delicately mirrors himself in front of us, as the beautiful often do': Schleiermacher's Plato
4. 'Enthusiasm dwells only in one-sidedness': knowledge of antiquity and professional philology
5. 'The most instructive form in which we encounter an understanding of life': the age of biography
6. The life of the Centaur: Wilamowitz, biography, Nietzsche
Epilogue: on keeping a distance

 
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Feeling and Classical Philology: Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920

by: Guthenke, C.

  • ISBN-13: 9781107104235 / 978-1-107-10423-5
  • ISBN-03: 1107104238 / 1-107-10423-8
  • Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020

Price: 92,78 EURO

1 copy in stock