Doing humanities in nineteenth-century Germany / edited by Efraim Podoksik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Podoksik, Efraim, editor.

Series:

History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 28.

Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; Volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Study and teaching--Germany--History--19th century.

Humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany, edited by Efraim Podoksik, is a collaborative project by leading scholars in German studies that examines the practices of theorising and researching in the humanities as pursued by German thinkers and scholars during the long nineteenth century, and the relevance of those practices for the humanities today. Each chapter focuses on a particular branch of the humanities, such as philosophy, history, classical philology, theology, or history of art. The volume both offers a broad overview of the history of German humanities and examines an array of particular cases that illustrate their inner dilemmas, ranging from Ranke’s engagement with the world of poetry to Max Weber’s appropriation of the notion of causality.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Note on Contributors

Introduction

/ Efraim Podoksik

Part 1

Historical Imagination

Philosophy: Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and Historicism

/ Michael N. Forster

Theology: Why Theology? Strategies of Legitimation: Protestant Theology in German Protestantism

/ Friedrich Wilhelm Graf

History: Between Archival Research and Aspirations to Leadership in Society: 19th-Century Germans as Practitioners in History

/ Daniel Fulda

Part 2

Studying the Beautiful

History of Art: Winckelmann’s Model of Art Historiography and Its Reception in the Late 18th and 19th Century

/ Elisabeth Décultot

Literary Studies: Two 19th-Century Models of Literary Study: August Wilhelm Schlegel and Friedrich Nietzsche

/ David E. Wellbery

Classical Philology: German Altertumswissenschaften, ‘Professorenhaarspalterei’ and Organising the Classics in the 19th Century

/ Christiane Reitz

Renaissance Studies: the Mother of Modernity: Jacob Burckhardt and the Idea of the Renaissance in 19th-Century Germany

/ Martin A. Ruehl

Part 3

Crossing the Borders

Science of Language: India vs America: the Science of Language in 19th-Century Germany

/ Jürgen Trabant

Exploring the world: On Vectopia: Alexander von Humboldt and Adelbert von Chamisso

/ Ottmar Ette

Völkerpsychologie: Völkerpsychologie in 19th-Century Germany: Lazarus, Steinthal, Wundt

/ Egbert Klautke

Sociology: the Emergence of Social Sciences out of the Quest for Causality: the Case of Max Weber

/ Gerhard Wagner

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-41684-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004416840 DOI