Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East (e-bog) af Molendijk, Arie L.
Molendijk, Arie L. (forfatter)

Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East e-bog

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This volume offers a critical analysis of one the most ambitious editorial projects of late Victorian Britain: the edition of the fifty substantial volumes of the Sacred Books of the East (1879-1910). The series was edited and conceptualized by Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist, orientalist, and religious scholar. Muller and his influential Oxford colleagu...
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Forfattere Molendijk, Arie L. (forfatter)
Forlag OUP Oxford
Udgivet 28 juli 2016
Længde 248 sider
Genrer 3JH
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780191087066
This volume offers a critical analysis of one the most ambitious editorial projects of late Victorian Britain: the edition of the fifty substantial volumes of the Sacred Books of the East (1879-1910). The series was edited and conceptualized by Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist, orientalist, and religious scholar. Muller and his influential Oxford colleagues secured financial support from the India Office ofthe British Empire and from Oxford University Press. Arie L. Molendijk documents how the series has become a landmark in the development of the humanities-especially the study of religion and language-in the second half of the nineteenth century. The edition also contributed significantly to the Western perception ofthe 'religious' or even 'mystic' East, which was textually represented in English translations. The series was a token of the rise of 'big science' and textualized the East, by selecting their 'sacred books' and bringing them under the power of western scholarship.