Friedrich Max Muller and the Role of Philology in Victorian Thought

ISBN-13: 9781138633841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 180 str.

John Davis; Angus Nicholls

Opis

This volume offers the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary assessment of the career of the 19^th century comparative philologist Friedrich Max Müller.

Recenzje

"Their volume clearly demonstrates that the investigation of the subject in this century is far from being exhausted." - Haruko Momma, New York University

Spis treści

Introduction – Friedrich Max Müller: The Career and Intellectual Trajectory of a German Philologist in Victorian Britain  Part I: Friedrich Max Müller on Language, Metaphor, Religion and Myth  1. ‘Language is our Rubicon’: Friedrich Max Müller’s Quarrel with Hensleigh Wedgwood  2. The Victorian Question of the Relation between Language and Thought  3. Friedrich Max Müller’s Cultural Concept of Metaphor  4. Friedrich Max Müller on Religion and Myth  5. Comparative Mythology as a Transnational Enterprise: Friedrich Max Müller’s Scholarly Identity through the Lens of Angelo De Gubernatis’s Correspondence  Part II: Max Müller and Religious Studies – Contribution and Reception  6. Forgotten Bibles: Friedrich Max Müller’s Edition of the Sacred Books of the East  7. Parallel Lives: Friedrich Max Müller and William Wright  8. ‘Vedāntist of Vedāntists’? The Problem of Friedrich Max Müller’s Religious Identity  9. Friedrich Max Müller and George Eliot: Affinities, Einfühlung, and the Science of Religion  10. ‘A reformed Buddhism […] would help in the distant future to bring about a mutual understanding’: Friedrich Max Müller’s Conceptions of Religious Reform, Ecumenical Dialogue and World Peace  11. Friedrich Max Müller and the Emergence of Identity Politics in India and Germany