Forming humanity : redeeming the German Bildung tradition /

Kant's proclamation of humankind's emergence from "self-incurred immaturity" left his contemporaries with a puzzle. What models should we use to sculpt ourselves if we no longer look to divine grace or received authorities? Deftly uncovering the roots of this question in Rhinelan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Herdt, Jennifer A., 1967- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Philosophy, German > 18th century. Philosophy, German > 19th century. Humanism > Germany > History > 18th century. Humanism > Germany > History > 19th century. Moral development > Germany. Bildungsromans > History and criticism. Philosophy and religion > Germany > History > 18th century. Philosophy and religion > Germany > History > 19th century. Religion and culture.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
From paideia to humanism
Pietism and the problem of human craft (Menschen-Kunst)
The harmonious harp-playing of humanity: J.G. Herder
Ethical formation and the invention of the religion of art
The rise of the Bildungsroman and the commodification of literature
Authorship and its resignation in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister
"The Bildung of self-consciousness itself towards science": Hegel
Conclusion.