1st Edition
Friedrich Max Müller and the Role of Philology in Victorian Thought
Introduction – Friedrich Max Müller: The Career and Intellectual Trajectory of a German Philologist in Victorian Britain John R. Davis and Angus Nicholls
Part I: Friedrich Max Müller on Language, Metaphor, Religion and Myth
1. ‘Language is our Rubicon’: Friedrich Max Müller’s Quarrel with Hensleigh Wedgwood Michela Piattelli
2. The Victorian Question of the Relation between Language and Thought Marjorie Lorch and Paula Hellal
3. Friedrich Max Müller’s Cultural Concept of Metaphor Andreas Musolff
4. Friedrich Max Müller on Religion and Myth Robert A. Segal
5. Comparative Mythology as a Transnational Enterprise: Friedrich Max Müller’s Scholarly Identity through the Lens of Angelo De Gubernatis’s Correspondence Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn
Part II: Max Müller and Religious Studies – Contribution and Reception
6. Forgotten Bibles: Friedrich Max Müller’s Edition of the Sacred Books of the East Arie L. Molendijk
7. Parallel Lives: Friedrich Max Müller and William Wright Bernhard Maier
8. ‘Vedāntist of Vedāntists’? The Problem of Friedrich Max Müller’s Religious Identity Thomas J. Green
9. Friedrich Max Müller and George Eliot: Affinities, Einfühlung, and the Science of Religion Sarah Barnette
10. ‘A reformed Buddhism […] would help in the distant future to bring about a mutual understanding’: Friedrich Max Müller’s Conceptions of Religious Reform, Ecumenical Dialogue and World Peace Laurent Dedryvère and Stéphanie Prévost
11. Friedrich Max Müller and the Emergence of Identity Politics in India and Germany Baijayanti Roy
Biography
John R. Davis is Professor of History and International Relations at Kingston University, UK. His research covers Anglo-German relations and British and German history.
Angus Nicholls is Reader in German and Comparative Literature at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He is co-editor of the Publications of the English Goethe Society and of History of the Human Sciences.
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