World Philology

Published by Harvard University Press 2015

World Philology

Edited by: Sheldon Pollock , Benjamin A. Elman and Ku-ming Kevin Chang

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674736122

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About this book

Philology—the discipline of making sense of texts—is enjoying a renaissance within academia. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and time periods in which it has been practiced and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is essential to human understanding.

Author / Editor information

Pollock Sheldon :

Sheldon Pollock is Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University.Elman Benjamin A. :

Benjamin A. Elman is Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University.Chang Ku-ming Kevin :

Ku-ming Kevin Chang is Associate Professor of History and Philology at Academia Sinica.

Reviews

World Philology demonstrates that the practice of philology is a worldwide phenomenon, found in literate cultures at many times and in many places, and sets the stage for a global comparative history of learned textual practices. The editors have assembled a broad range of eminent experts.
-- Christopher Minkowski, University of Oxford

This is a splendid book, conceived with courage and intelligence, and executed with grace and obstinacy. There is nothing at all like it, and people will not only use it constantly but will also wonder how they could have managed to get along earlier without ever having had anything like it.
-- Glenn W. Most, University of Chicago

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Foreword Fan-Sen Wang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Sheldon Pollock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. From Book to Edition: Philology in Ancient Greece Franco Montanari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. The Bride of Mercury: Confessions of a ’Pataphilologist James E. G. Zetzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. Striving for Meaning: A Short History of Rabbinic Omnisignificance Yaakov Elman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
4. Early Arabic Philologists: Poetry’s Friends or Foes? Beatrice Gruendler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
5. What Was Philology in Sanskrit? Sheldon Pollock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
6. Reconciling the Classics: Two Case Studies in Song- Yuan Exegetical Approaches Michael Lackner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
7. Humanist Philologies: Texts, Antiquities, and Their Scholarly Transformations in the Early Modern West Anthony Grafton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
8. Mughal Philology and Rūmī’s Mathnavī Muzaffar Alam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
9. The Rise of “Deep Reading” in Early Modern Ottoman Scholarly Culture Khaled El-Rouayheb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
10. Early Modern or Late Imperial? The Crisis of Classical Philology in Eighteenth- Century China Benjamin A. Elman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
11. The Politics of Philology in Japan: Ancient Texts, Language, and Japanese Identity Susan L. Burns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
12. “Enthusiasm Dwells Only in Specialization”: Classical Philology and Disciplinarity in Nineteenth- Century Germany Constanze Güthenke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
13. The Intelligence of Philological Practice: On the Interpretation of Rilke’s Sonnet “O komm und geh” Christoph König Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
14. Philology or Linguistics? Transcontinental Responses Ku-ming Kevin Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 420
Illustrations
- Other: 4 tables

eBook

Published: January 5, 2015
ISBN: 9780674736122