Screen LibraryThe origins of German self-cultivation : Bildung and the future of the humanities /
"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" ind...
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Berghahn Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Spektrum : publications of the German Studies Association ;
27 |
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| Summary: |
"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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 160 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781800738591 1800738595 |
| Index Number: | LA721 |
| CLC: | G41-095.16 |
| Call Number: | G41-095.16/O696 |
| Contents: |
Self-cultivation and the police state : the political context of Wilhelm von Humboldt's concept of Bildung / Fichte's conception of Bildung and German national identity / Becoming solid : Bildung and storage media in Moritz's and Goethe's travelogues / Schinkel's Altes Museum as Bildungsmuseum : the aesthetic education of a national community and the makings of the modern museum / From Bildungsmaschine to Willenserziehung : Nietzsche's project of heroic minds / The self-formation of poetic expression : Wilhelm Dilthey's Geistesgeschichte / Bildung as dialectical and theological hermeneutics in the service of the humanities / |