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Forming Humanity – Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition

Jennifer A. Herdt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2019
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-61848-7 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Jennifer A. Herdt is the Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School. Her previous books include Putting On Virtue, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.07.2019
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 241 mm
Gewicht	622 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-226-61848-X / 022661848X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-61848-7 / 9780226618487
Zustand	Neuware