The Origins of German Self-Cultivation

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<p> Recent devaluations of a liberal arts education call the formative concept of<em>Bildung</em>, a defining model of self-cultivation rooted in 18th and 19th century German philosophy and culture, into question and force us to reconsider what it once meant and now means to be an educated individual. This volume uses an arc of interdisciplinary scholarship to map both the epistemological origins and cultural expressions of the pivotal notion of<em>Bildung</em> at the heart of pursuit in the humanities. From its intriguing original historical manifestations to its continuing resonance in current ongoing debates surrounding the humanities, the editors urge us to ask and discover how the classical concept of<em>Bildung</em>, so central to humanistic inquiry, was historically imagined and applied in its original German context.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Ulrich Kinzel</strong> is Professor of German Literature at the University of Kiel. His research and teaching include seventeenth to twentieth&#xa0;century German literature and culture as well studies in comparative literature and culture. He is the author of&#xa0;<em>Ethische Projekte. Literatur und Selbstgestaltung im Kontext des Regierungsdenkens. Humboldt, Goethe, Stifter, Raabe</em> (Verlag Vittorio Klostermann,&#xa0; 2000) and edited<em>London Urban Space and Cultural Experience</em> (Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, 2010).</p>

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