Origins of German Self-Cultivation

Bildung and the Future of the Humanities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Jennifer Ham, Ulrich Kinzel, David Tse-chien Pan, David Tse-Chien Pan

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Recent devaluations of a liberal arts education call the formative concept of Bildung, a defining model of self-cultivation rooted in 18th and 19th century German philosophy and culture, into question and force us to reconsider what it once meant and now means to be an “educated” individual. This volume uses an arc of interdisciplinary scholarship to map both the epistemological origins and cultural expressions of the pivotal notion of Bildung at the heart of pursuit in the humanities. From its intriguing original historical manifestations to its continuing resonance in current ongoing debates surrounding the humanities, the editors urge us to ask and discover how the classical concept of Bildung, so central to humanistic inquiry, was historically imagined and applied in its original German context.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-10
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Antal sidor168
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781800738591

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Jennifer Ham is Professor of German and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she teaches courses on German literature, culture and language and serves as division Chair of Humanities. Jennifer has also published and presented on subjects such as animal studies, Nietzsche, femininity, cabaret, Frank Wedekind and German cinema, and is also coeditor of Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History (Routledge, 1997).

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJennifer Ham, Ulrich Kinzel, and David Tse-chien PanChapter 1. Self-cultivation and the Police State: The Political Context of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Concept of BildungUlrich KinzelChapter 2. Fichte’s Conception of Bildung and German National IdentityDavid Tse-chien PanChapter 3. Becoming Solid: Bildung and Storage Media in Moritz’s and Goethe’s Italian TravelsSean FranzelChapter 4. Schinkel’s Altes Museum as “Bildungsmuseum”: The Aesthetic Education of a National Community and the Makings of the Modern MuseumAndrea MeyertholenChapter 5. From Bildungsmaschine to Willenserziehung: Nietzsche’s Project of “Heroic Minds”Jennifer HamChapter 6. The Self-Formation of Poetic Expression: Wilhelm Dilthey’s GeistesgeschichteAnna GuilleminChapter 7. Bildung as Dialectical and Theological Hermeneutics in the Service of the HumanitiesJohn SmithConclusionIndex