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Theodore Ziolkowski - Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany - 9780801442025 - V9780801442025
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Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany

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Description for Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.

"It is not sufficiently appreciated, I believe, how profoundly Clio, the muse of history, permeated every aspect of thought during the Romantic era: philosophy, theology, law, natural science, medicine, and all other fields of intellectual endeavor.... Thoughtful students of the period well understand that 'Romanticism' is not merely a literary or aesthetic movement but, rather, a general climate of opinion."—from the IntroductionIn 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. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801442025
SKU
V9780801442025
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About Theodore Ziolkowski
Theodore Ziolkowski is Class of 1900 Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Among his many books are The Mirror of Justice and The Sin of Knowledge.

Reviews for Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany
Clio the Romantic Muse is an important and timely book for scholars of religion with a particular interest in the current (and perennial) debates about the constitution of religious studies as a discipline and its relationship to its multifarious institutional settings.... Ziolkowski finally asks rhetorically whether 'a familiarity with an earlier society whose experience was strikingly analogous to our own ... Read more

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