04030nam 22007335 450 991104660520332120200406050111.09780226618517022661851X10.7208/9780226618517(CKB)4100000008768640(MiAaPQ)EBC5796572(StDuBDS)EDZ0002153333(DE-B1597)535650(OCoLC)1109843290(DE-B1597)9780226618517(Perlego)1852924(EXLCZ)99410000000876864020200406h20192019 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierForming Humanity Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition /Jennifer A. HerdtChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]©20191 online resource (338 pages)Chicago scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2019.9780226836904 0226836908 9780226618487 022661848X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. From Paideia to Humanism -- 2. Pietism and the Problem of Human Craft (Menschen-Kunst) -- 3. The Harmonious Harp-Playing of Humanity: J. G. Herder -- 4. Ethical Formation and the Invention of the Religion of Art -- 5. The Rise of the Bildungsroman and the Commodification of Literature -- 6. Authorship and Its Resignation in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister -- 7. "The Bildung of Self-Consciousness Itself towards Science": Hegel -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- IndexKant'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 Rhineland mysticism, Pietist introspection, and the rise of the bildungsroman, Jennifer A. Herdt reveals bildung, or ethical formation, as the key to post-Kantian thought. This was no simple process of secularization, in which human beings took responsibility for something they had earlier left in the hands of God. Rather, theorists of bildung, from Herder through Goethe to Hegel, championed human agency in self-determination while working out the social and political implications of our creation in the image of God. While bildung was invoked to justify racism and colonialism by stigmatizing those deemed resistant to self-cultivation, it also nourished ideals of dialogical encounter and mutual recognition. Herdt reveals how the project of forming humanity lives on in our ongoing efforts to grapple with this complicated legacy.Chicago scholarship online.Philosophy, German18th centuryPhilosophy, German19th centuryHumanismGermanyHistory18th centuryHumanismGermanyHistory19th centuryMoral developmentGermanyBildungsromansHistory and criticismPhilosophy and religionGermanyHistory18th centuryPhilosophy and religionGermanyHistory19th centuryReligion and culturePhilosophy, GermanPhilosophy, GermanHumanismHistoryHumanismHistoryMoral developmentBildungsromansHistory and criticism.Philosophy and religionHistoryPhilosophy and religionHistoryReligion and culture.170.943Herdt Jennifer A., authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1867720DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9911046605203321Forming Humanity4475417UNINA