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 1 - The Potter’s Daughter
Longing, Bildung, and the Self
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
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
Summary
The first chapter concentrates on the period around 1800, laying the groundwork by examining the concepts of sentimentality, the code of Romantic love, Bildung, interpretation, and the appeal of Greek antiquity as an analogue to the history and formation of the self. Beginning from Winckelmann’s erotic classicism it draws on the writings of Friedrich August Wolf, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Friedrich Schlegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Johann Georg Herder, together with insights from recent literary, historical, and sociological work on the discursive codification of emotions and of closeness in that period.
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- Feeling and Classical PhilologyKnowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920, pp. 21 - 47Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020