Clio the Romantic muse
Subtitle: historicizing the faculties in Germany
By: Theodore Ziolkowski.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Historiography -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.; Historiography -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.; Germany -- Historiography.; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index.