History of Classical Scholarship (Feb 2021)
Rigour and Creativity
Abstract
This paper explores some of the phases of intellectual history discussed in Constanze Güthenke’s book Feeling and Classical Philology (Cambridge, 2020): the links between early nineteenth century liberalism and the scoping of ancient history as a field of scholarly investigation; the formative moment in which the classical world began to lose its paradigmatic role; the connections between this new approach and the establishment of a developing bourgeois culture; the crisis of historicism; and the interdisciplinary paradigm that Wilamowitz sought to assert.
