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Author Ziolkowski, Theodore, author

Title Clio the Romantic muse : historicizing the faculties in Germany / Theodore Ziolkowski
Published Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2004
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 215 pages)
Contents History : From Decoration to Discipline. The sense of history -- Three revolutions -- The four faculties -- Discordant harmonies among the faculties -- History as a discipline -- The University of Berlin -- Niebuhr's lectures on Roman history -- Philosophy. Kant and the post-Kantians -- Hegel and history -- Hegel, history, and philosophy -- Hegel's difficulty -- The organization of the Phenomenology -- Hegel's phenomenological braid -- Theology. Protestant theology at mid-century -- Herder and pre-Romantic theology -- Schleiermacher: the great synthesizer -- History in On Religion -- History in systematic theology -- Law. German law in the 1790s -- Forerunners of the historical school -- Savigny: founder of the historical school -- Years of preparation -- The codification controversy -- The historical school -- Medicine. The discovery of life -- Schelling: Naturphilosoph as physician -- Between science and medicine -- Schubert: physician as Naturphilosoph -- Carus and medical studies around 1810 -- Conclusion. Connections -- Common themes -- Extracurricular activities -- Lessons?
Summary "In a book certain to be of interest to readers in many disciplines, the distinguished scholar Theodore Ziolkowski shows how a strong impulse toward historical concerns was formalized in the four German academic faculties: philosophy, theology, law, and medicine/biology. In Clio the Romantic Muse, he focuses on representative figures in whose early work the sense of history of was first manifested: G.W.F. Hegel, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, and Friedrich Schleiermacher. Through biographical treatments of these and other leading German scholars, Ziolkowski traces how the disciplines became historicized in the period 1790-1810. He goes on to suggest how powerfully the Romantic thinkers influenced their disciples in the twentieth century."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Historiography -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
Historiography -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY -- Historiography.
Historiography
Intellectual life
Geschichtsdenken
Romantiek.
Geschiedschrijving.
Wetenschappen.
SUBJECT Germany -- Historiography
Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054608
Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054609
Subject Germany
Deutschland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501711282
1501711288