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.... The history of philology engages language, the sciences (especially evolutionary biology), and race, all of which are evidenced in the work of the German philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt. The relationships among these discourses have been repeatedly subject to deconstruction, sometimes so as to enhance...

... and opportunism. This is an ethics of disinterestedness that resembles the approach laid out in the Critique of Judgment. 34. Foucault, “What Is Critique?” 191. 35. While Wilhelm von Humboldt proposed a new university for Berlin along the lines sug- gested by Kant, Kant had located critique...

.... for his support. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. 1. Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin was the official designation of this institution from its founding in 1809–1810 by then Prussian Minister of Education Wilhelm von Humboldt, at the behest of the emperor, Frederick William...

... of anthologies of German thinkers and scientists in the mid-1920s, and he wanted Schmalenbach to edit the Leibniz volume, while Benjamin would oversee the volume containing Wilhelm von Humboldt's writings; see Knödler 2010 : 179. Neither of these anthologies came to fruition. 7. The aim of Gundolf's...

..., but spirit that cannot be formed into an image because of an assertion (passed on through theology to modern philosophy) that image ultimately despiri- tualizes matters. The project of Bildung—at least in the way it was config- ured in Wilhelm von Humboldt’s mind—is a worldly project. Self-formation­...

... [who] step out of the circle of history” in Wilhelm von Humboldt’s succinct phrase, or “the Greeks who were dead” in François- René de Chateaubriand’s inimitable manner, typical of his general cul- tural necrophilia.² This ideality was thoroughly absorbed by Europe’s chief national...

.... 26. These include: Fischer (mentioned above), Justinus Kerner, Wilhelm Zimmerman, Bettina von Arnim, Achim von Arnim, Mörike, and, of course, Waiblinger, who, like Achim and Hegel, died over a decade before Hölderlin. Tseng 2003.2.27 07:19...

... speeches or op-ed pieces.5 The days of Robert M. Hutchins and Derek Bok, never mind Wilhelm von Humboldt and John Henry Newman, are long gone. It is thus perfectly understandable, if somewhat disquiet- ing to a few, that he...

... [Munich: Duncker and Humboldt, 1922], 37). For the question of the work of art and its secularized aura, see Benjamin’s essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Benjamin SW. 11. This remark provides the title for Alexander García Düttmann’s introduction...

....” We're working with a set of practices that are . . . Look, let me pause a minute. The historical university—and you've been marking how you've not followed the usual trajectories of formation as an academic—the research university, as we know it, Wilhelm von Humboldt's model, which was always a state...