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 5 - ‘The Most Instructive Form in Which We Encounter an Understanding of Life’
The Age of Biography
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 fifth chapter considers the narrative overlap of disciplinary filiation and the biographical. It does so through readings of Carl Justi’s biography of Winckelmann and Wilhelm Dilthey’s biographical work on Schleiermacher. Both were begun in the 1870s within a web of hermeneutic thinking about the biographical that characterized the Geisteswissenschaften and reflected back into the study of ancient biographical materials, too, and rendered scholars and their subject matter coextensive.
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- Feeling and Classical PhilologyKnowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920, pp. 129 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020