Friedrich Max Muller and the Sacred Books of the East - Couverture rigide

Molendijk, Arie L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198784236 ISBN 13 : 9780198784234

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

This book is primarily useful in providing some of the background that informed the making of the SBE series. (Reading Religion)

[T]here are real rewards to be found in [Molendijk's book]...Above all, it is good to see an entire volume dedicated to Muller, who, although a frequent guest star in studies of Victorian literature, rarely receives sustained attention himself. (Sebastian LeCourt, Victorian Studies)

Arie Molendijks history of that vast publishing project offers a fascinating glimpse of an emerging academic field, as well as a startling portrait of a truly transdisciplinary scholar intent on proving that Eastern religions were essential for an understanding of Western culture. (Janet M. Powers, Religion)

Since the series as such has rarely been the object of close historical research ... Molendijks monograph is an original and very welcome contribution. ... the first part of the book is largely narrative and full of interesting observations and anecdotes, while the second is more analytical and reflective and has shorter chapters. Altogether this makes reading the book as a whole an easy, but reflective and rewarding experience. (Christoph Uehlinger, Religion)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 Müller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist, orientalist, and religious scholar. Müller and his influential Oxford colleagues secured financial support from the India Office of the 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 of the '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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0198784236
• ISBN 13: 9780198784234
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248