Academic Journal
The Philological Apparatus: Science, Text, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century
| Title: | The Philological Apparatus: Science, Text, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century |
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| Authors: | Kurtz, Paul Michael |
| Source: | CRITICAL INQUIRY |
| Publisher Information: | University of Chicago Press, 2021. |
| Publication Year: | 2021 |
| Subject Terms: | German language--Study and teaching, History, Technology, European History, History and Archaeology, Science, Idea (Philosophy), 06 humanities and the arts, 02 engineering and technology, 0603 philosophy, ethics and religion, Area studies, Languages and Literatures, History of Science, Germany, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Philology, Media Theory |
| Description: | Philology haunts the humanities, through both its defendants and its detractors. This article examines the construction of philology as the premier science of the long nineteenth century in Europe. It aims to bring the history of philology up to date by taking it seriously as a science and giving it the kind of treatment that has dominated the history of science for the last generation: to reveal how practices, instruments, and cooperation create visions of timeless knowledge. This historical inquiry therefore asks how one modality of textual interpretation could morph into an integrated system of knowledge production, which ostensibly explained the whole human world. Ultimately, it advances a central argument: philology operated as a relational network, one that concealed diversity and disunity, projected unity and stability, and seemed to rise above the material conditions of its own making. The article scrutinizes the composition of philology as a heterogeneous ensemble, the functioning of philology comparable to other sciences, whether human or natural, and the historical contingency in the articulation of philology. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1539-7858 0093-1896 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/714541 |
| DOI: | 10.17613/rpx2-k525 |
| DOI: | 10.17613/ave8w-n6b46 |
| Access URL: | https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/714541 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8708980 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/714541 https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:39167/ https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/714541 http://doi.org/10.1086/714541 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8708980 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8708980 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8708980/file/8710492 |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....cc1dd09bdae974f88124198ecbd1bb44 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| ISSN: | 15397858 00931896 |
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| DOI: | 10.1086/714541 |