List of Maps and Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Words and Things 1. Orientalism and Reform 2. Culture and the Origin of Language 3. The Search for the Historical Plato 4. The Search for the Historical Homer 5. The Search for the Historical Moses 6. The Sociology of Ancient History 7. Three Anthropologies 8. A Scientific Revolution Conclusion: Enlightenment Social Science Notes Index
With enormous erudition, Carhart examines the innovations in the human sciences taking place in and around Gottingen in the eighteenth century but set in a larger European context. He does us the service of shedding light on such figures as Christian Gottlob Heyne, Johann David Michaelis, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn in a synoptic treatment that is both new and important. This is a work of revisionism that brings forward neglected materials, challenges settled views, and proposes yet another 'rival enlightenment.' -- John H. Zammito, Rice University Michael Carhart's ambitious contribution to our knowledge of the German Enlightenment should appeal to Enlightenment specialists of any national focus, as it situates German figures in conversation with other European figures. The author provides a well-informed analysis of many illuminating but often little-known episodes in intellectual history of the eighteenth century, from the discussions of feral children to that of Tahitian natives, from expeditions to Yemen and Syria to scholarly ones into the philological past. -- Ann Blair, Harvard University
Michael C. Carhart is Associate Professor of History at Old Dominion University.
With enormous erudition, Carhart examines the innovations in the
human sciences taking place in and around Goettingen in the
eighteenth century but set in a larger European context. He does us
the service of shedding light on such figures as Christian Gottlob
Heyne, Johann David Michaelis, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn in a
synoptic treatment that is both new and important. This is a work
of revisionism that brings forward neglected materials, challenges
settled views, and proposes yet another 'rival enlightenment.' --
John H. Zammito, Rice University
Michael Carhart's ambitious contribution to our knowledge of the
German Enlightenment should appeal to Enlightenment specialists of
any national focus, as it situates German figures in conversation
with other European figures. The author provides a well-informed
analysis of many illuminating but often little-known episodes in
intellectual history of the eighteenth century, from the
discussions of feral children to that of Tahitian natives, from
expeditions to Yemen and Syria to scholarly ones into the
philological past. -- Ann Blair, Harvard University
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