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 4 - ‘Enthusiasm Dwells Only in One-Sidedness’
Knowledge of Antiquity and Professional Philology
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 fourth chapter follows the ramifications of this investment in a Platonizing imagination of learning and knowledge into the discipline of philology, showing how such a template interacted with the tensions inherent in philology as a practice. If it is the case that the demands of an increasingly specialized scientific philology and the expectation of a fully personal and individualized formation of the self (Bildung) were increasingly drifting apart, I want to show that philology in its self-descriptions still tried to keep those poles together, especially through maintaining a rhetoric of philological feeling. The authors this chapter focuses on are Friedrich Creuzer, Friedrich Thiersch, August Boeckh, Friedrich Ritschl, and Hermann Usener.
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- Feeling and Classical PhilologyKnowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920, pp. 96 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020