Clio the Romantic muse : historicizing the faculties in Germany / Theodore Ziolkowski.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.

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?

"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

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