Constanze Güthenke

Feeling and Classical Philology

Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770-1920

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that German classical philology personified antiquity and imagined scholarship as an inter-personal relationship with it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781107104235
• ISBN-10: 1107104238
• Artikelnr.: 57582736

Autorenporträt

Constanze Güthenke is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford and E. P. Warren Praelector in Classics at Corpus Christi College. Her main research interests lie in the field of antiquity after antiquity, and in questions of the disciplinary shape of Classics and the history of scholarship. Her publications include Placing Modern Greece: The Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism (2008). She is a founding member of the Postclassicisms collective and she is currently editor-in-chief of the Classical Receptions Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: feeling and philology; 1. The potter's daughter: longing,
Bildung, and the self; 2. From the symposium to the seminar: language of
love and language of institutions; 3. 'So that he unknowingly and
delicately mirrors himself in front of us, as the beautiful often do':
Schleiermacher's Plato; 4. 'Enthusiasm dwells only in one-sidedness':
knowledge of antiquity and professional philology; 5. 'The most instructive
form in which we encounter an understanding of life': the age of biography;
6. The life of the Centaur: Wilamowitz, biography, Nietzsche; Epilogue: on
keeping a distance.