Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. From Book to Edition: Philology in Ancient Greece 25
7. 2. The Bride of Mercury: Confessions of a ’Pataphilologist 45
8. 3. Striving for Meaning: A Short History of Rabbinic Omnisignificance 63
9. 4. Early Arabic Philologists: Poetry’s Friends or Foes? 92
10. 5. What Was Philology in Sanskrit? 114
11. 6. Reconciling the Classics: Two Case Studies in Song- Yuan Exegetical Approaches 137
12. 7. Humanist Philologies: Texts, Antiquities, and Their Scholarly Transformations in the Early Modern West 154
13. 8. Mughal Philology and Rūmī’s Mathnavī 178
14. 9. The Rise of “Deep Reading” in Early Modern Ottoman Scholarly Culture 201
15. 10. Early Modern or Late Imperial? The Crisis of Classical Philology in Eighteenth- Century China 225
16. 11. The Politics of Philology in Japan: Ancient Texts, Language, and Japanese Identity 245
17. 12. “Enthusiasm Dwells Only in Specialization”: Classical Philology and Disciplinarity in Nineteenth- Century Germany 264
18. 13. The Intelligence of Philological Practice: On the Interpretation of Rilke’s Sonnet “O komm und geh” 285
19. 14. Philology or Linguistics? Transcontinental Responses 311
20. Notes 333
21. Bibliography 385
22. List of Contributors 437
23. Index 439