Philology--the discovery, editing, and presentation of historical
texts--was once a firmly established discipline that formed the
core study for students across a wide range of linguistic and
literary fields. Although philology departments are steadily
disappearing from contemporary educational establishments, in this
book Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht demonstrates that the problems,
standards, and methods of philology remain as vital as ever. For
two and a half millennia philologists have viewed themselves as the
modest heirs and curators of their textual past's most glorious
periods, collecting and editing text fragments, historicizing them
and adding commentary, and ultimately teaching them to contemporary
readers. Gumbrecht argues for a return to this tradition as an
alternative to an often free-floating textual interpretation and to
the more recent redefinition of literary studies as "cultural
studies," which risks a loss of intellectual focus. Such a return
to philological core exercises, however, can become more than yet
another movement of academic nostalgia only if it takes into
account the hidden desire that has inspired philology since its
Hellenistic beginnings: the desire to make the past present again
by embodying it.
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