The Origins of German Self-Cultivation : : ‹em›Bildung‹/em› and the Future of the Humanities / / ed. by David Tse-chien Pan, Ulrich Kinzel, Jennifer Ham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Franzel, Sean,; Guillemin, Anna,; Ham, Jennifer,; Kinzel, Ulrich,; Meyertholen, Andrea,; Smith, John H.,; Tse-chien Pan, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Ham, Jennifer,; Kinzel, Ulrich,; Pan, David Tse-chien,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 27
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Self-Cultivation and the Police State: Th e Political Context of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Concept of Bildung -- Chapter 2. Fichte’s Conception of Bildung and German National Identity -- Chapter 3. Becoming Solid: Bildung and Storage Media in Moritz’s and Goethe’s Travelogues -- Chapter 4. Schinkel’s Altes Museum as Bildungsmuseum: Th e Aesthetic Education of a National Community and the Makings of the Modern Museum -- Chapter 5. From Bildungsmaschine to Willenserziehung: Nietzsche’s Project of Heroic Minds Chapter -- Chapter 6. The Self-Formation of Poetic Expression: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Geistesgeschichte -- Chapter 7. Bildung as Dialectical and Th eological Hermeneutics in the Service of the Humanities -- Conclusion -- Index