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

ISBN-13: 9781107104235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 238 str.

Constanze Guthenke

Opis

Argues that German classical philology personified antiquity and imagined scholarship as an inter-personal relationship with it.

Spis treści

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.