Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Self-Cultivation and the Police State: Th e Political Context of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Concept of Bildung 12
7. Chapter 2. Fichte’s Conception of Bildung and German National Identity 28
8. Chapter 3. Becoming Solid: Bildung and Storage Media in Moritz’s and Goethe’s Travelogues 56
9. Chapter 4. Schinkel’s Altes Museum as Bildungsmuseum: Th e Aesthetic Education of a National Community and the Makings of the Modern Museum 76
10. Chapter 5. From Bildungsmaschine to Willenserziehung: Nietzsche’s Project of Heroic Minds Chapter 101
11. Chapter 6. The Self-Formation of Poetic Expression: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Geistesgeschichte 120
12. Chapter 7. Bildung as Dialectical and Th eological Hermeneutics in the Service of the Humanities 136
13. Conclusion 151
14. Index 155