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Chapter 5 - ‘The Most Instructive Form in Which We Encounter an Understanding of Life’

The Age of Biography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

Constanze Güthenke
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University of Oxford
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The fifth chapter considers the narrative overlap of disciplinary filiation and the biographical. It does so through readings of Carl Justi’s biography of Winckelmann and Wilhelm Dilthey’s biographical work on Schleiermacher. Both were begun in the 1870s within a web of hermeneutic thinking about the biographical that characterized the Geisteswissenschaften and reflected back into the study of ancient biographical materials, too, and rendered scholars and their subject matter coextensive.

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Feeling and Classical Philology
Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920
, pp. 129 - 161
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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