Book contents
- Feeling and Classical Philology
- Classics after Antiquity
- Feeling and Classical Philology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Potter’s Daughter
- Chapter 2 From the Symposium to the Seminar
- Chapter 3 ‘So That He Unknowingly and Delicately Mirrors Himself in Front of Us, As the Beautiful Often Do’
- Chapter 4 ‘Enthusiasm Dwells Only in One-Sidedness’
- Chapter 5 ‘The Most Instructive Form in Which We Encounter an Understanding of Life’
- Chapter 6 The Life of the Centaur
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - From the Symposium to the Seminar
Language of Love and Language of Institutions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- Feeling and Classical Philology
- Classics after Antiquity
- Feeling and Classical Philology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Potter’s Daughter
- Chapter 2 From the Symposium to the Seminar
- Chapter 3 ‘So That He Unknowingly and Delicately Mirrors Himself in Front of Us, As the Beautiful Often Do’
- Chapter 4 ‘Enthusiasm Dwells Only in One-Sidedness’
- Chapter 5 ‘The Most Instructive Form in Which We Encounter an Understanding of Life’
- Chapter 6 The Life of the Centaur
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The second chapter turns to the specific examples of Plato and of Socratic teaching as a template used for formulating an approach to the study of antiquity. It also introduces the institution of the philological seminar as a space for academic sociability modelled on Platonic precedent. Compared to an earlier interest in mainly Socrates (rather than Plato) as a mostly ambivalent figure, I trace a new understanding of Plato as the ostensibly unified author of systematic works centrally concerned with educational progress. My main example in this chapter is Wolf’s directorship of the philological seminar in Halle, together with his edition of Plato’s Symposium. I also look at the Socratic Memorabilia of J. G. Hamann (1759) and finally at some of the programmatic writings of Fichte and Schleiermacher for a new university in Berlin.
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- Feeling and Classical PhilologyKnowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920, pp. 48 - 71Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020