Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East / Arie L. Molendijk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Molendijk, Arie L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900.

Sacred books.

Physical Description:

xi, 230 pages : portrait (frontispiece) ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"This volume offers a critical analysis of one the most ambitious editorial projects of late Victorian Britain: the edition of the fifty substantial volumes of the Sacred Books of the East (1879-1910). The series was edited and conceptualized by Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist, orientalist, and religious scholar. Muller and his influential Oxford colleagues secured financial support from the India Office of the British Empire and from Oxford University Press. Arie L. Molendijk documents how the series has become a landmark in the development of the humanities-especially the study of religion and language-in the second half of the nineteenth century. The edition also contributed significantly to the Western perception of the "religious" or even "mystic" East, which was textually represented in English translations. The series was a token of the rise of 'big science' and textualized the East, by selecting their 'sacred books' and bringing them under the power of western scholarship." --publisher's website.

Contents:

The right hourable Max Müller

The making of a series

Concepts and ideas

Methods

Religion of humanity

Intellectual impact.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-221) and index.

ISBN:

0198784236

9780198784234

OCLC:

933337429