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.
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 vo...
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| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ;
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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