Trakulhun
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Asian philologies and modern European scholarly culture | ||||
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| Original title / Originaltitel | Das philologische Asien und die europäische Gelehrtenkultur in der Moderne | ||||
| Summary / Zusammenfassung | The project explores the history of the philologies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It aims at the historical epistemology of this field of varying disciplines, institutionalised to different degrees, but unified by a set of shared practices: such as an interest in antiquity, the production of grammars and dictionaries, the collecting of inscriptions during research travels, the techniques of critical editing. The project asks for the significance of philological practice for the development of a specific scholarly culture, to be understood as an indispensable component of European cultural history in the modern age: as one of several processes of ‘scientification’ (that are not regarded as proceeding towards a single determinate destination). In particular, the project aims at clarifying that and how the formation of epistemic patterns of philological scholarship was based on encounters with and projections on Asian – “Oriental” – regions of the world. Furthermore, it will ask in what way the patterns in question crucially influenced the development of specific discursive and practical forms of politics, historical culture and religion. The project will consist of several case studies that will cover chronologically and thematically diverse areas, thus addressing the different aspects of the subject matter. | ||||
| Publications / Publikationen | Trüper, Henning: „Das Klein-Klein der Arbeit. Die Notizführung des Historikers François Louis Ganshof“, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 18 (2007) 2, S. 82-104 Trüper, Henning: “History takes time and writing takes time, too. A case study of temporal notions in historical text”, in: Storia della Storiografia 53 (2008), S. 73-96 |
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| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Asia, Europe, history, discourse, philology, Orientalism, postcolonial studies, history of ideas | ||||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career), Others |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Jan 2009 to Dec 2011 |