GERST 6380 - [Readings of Recollection]

(crosslisted)
(also COML 6010)

4 credits.

Next offered 2015-2016.

P. Gilgen.

This course examines the emergence of a veritable philosophy of recollection around 1800. The decline of the ars memoriae and the temporalization of knowledge in the course of the eighteenth century made possible a new semantics of “recollection” [Erinnerung]. In the process, a number of canonical statements in the history of philosophy by the likes of Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine, were thoroughly re-read and re-written. A newly developed mode of reading was of central importance for this development. Primary readings may also include Cicero, Herder, Leibniz, Lessing, Kant, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, Hölderlin.