Clio the Romantic Muse

by Ziolkowski, Theodore

• ISBN13: 9780801442025
• ISBN10: 0801442028
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

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 Introduction 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 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 17901810. He goes on to suggest how powerfully the Romantic thinkers influenced their disciples in the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Theodore Ziolkowski is Class of 1900 Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1 HISTORY: From Decoration to Discipline	1	(32)
The Sense of History	1	(4)
Three Revolutions	5	(6)
The Four Faculties	11	(3)
Discordant Harmonies among the Faculties	14	(5)
History as a Discipline	19	(2)
The University of Berlin	21	(5)
Niebuhr's Lectures on Roman History	26	(7)
2 PHILOSOPHY	33	(32)
Kant and the Post-Kantians	33	(4)
Hegel and History	37	(6)
Hegel, History, and Philosophy	43	(4)
Hegel's Difficulty	47	(6)
The Organization of the Phenomenology	53	(5)
Hegel's Phenomenological Braid	58	(7)
3 THEOLOGY	65	(34)
Protestant Theology at Mid-Century	65	(6)
Herder and Pre-Romantic Theology	71	(3)
Schleiermacher: The Great Synthesizer	74	(5)
History in On Religion	79	(9)
History in Systematic Theology: Brief Outline	88	(11)
4. LAW	99	(34)
German Law in the 1790s	99	(6)
Forerunners of the Historical School	105	(4)
Savigny: Founder of the Historical School	109	(6)
Years of Preparation	115	(7)
The Codification Controversy	122	(4)
The Historical School	126	(7)
5. MEDICINE	133	(52)
The Discovery of Life	133	(8)
Schelling: Naturphilosoph as Physician	141	(5)
Between Science and Medicine	146	(8)
Schubert: Physician as Naturphilosoph	154	(7)
Carus and Medical Studies around 1810	161	(9)
CONCLUSION 17O
Connections	170	(2)
Common Themes	172	(3)
Extracurricular Activities	175	(7)
Lessons?	182	(3)
Notes	185	(16)
Bibliography	201	(10)
Index	211