Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-36117-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 598 g

Reihe: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Podoksik, Efraim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Geisteswissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Note on Contributors

Introduction

Efraim Podoksik

Part 1Historical 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 2Studying 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 3Crossing 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

Über Autor(innen)

Efraim Podoksik, Ph.D. (2002), University of Cambridge, is Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specialises in the history of political thought and modern intellectual history. He is currently working on the thought of Georg Simmel.