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Friedrich Max Muller and the Role of Philology in Victorian Thought (Paperback)
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Friedrich Max Muller and the Role of Philology in Victorian Thought (Paperback)
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The German comparative philologist Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900)
was one of the most influential scholars in Victorian Britain.
Muller travelled to Britain in 1846 in order to prepare a
translation of the Rig Veda. This research visit would turn into a
lifelong stay after Muller was appointed as Taylor Professor of
Modern Languages at Oxford in 1854. Muller's activities in this
position would exert a profound influence on British intellectual
life during the second half of the nineteenth-century: his
book-length essay on Comparative Mythology (1856) inspired
evolutionist thinkers such as Herbert Spencer and Edward Burnett
Tylor and made philology into one of the master sciences at
mid-century; his debates with Charles Darwin and his followers on
the origin of language constituted a significant component of
religiously informed reactions to Darwin's ideas about human
descent; his arguments concerning the interdependence of language
and thought influenced fields such as psychology, neurology,
paediatrics and education until the end of the nineteenth century;
his theories concerning an 'Aryan' language that purportedly
predated Sanskrit and ancient Greek led to controversial debates on
the relations between language, religion and race in the Indian
subcontinent and beyond; and his monumental 50-volume edition of
the Sacred Books of the East helped to lay the foundations for the
study of comparative religion. Muller's interlocutors and readers
included people as various as Alexander von Humboldt, Darwin,
George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ferdinand de
Saussure, Ernst Cassirer, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jarwaharlal Nehru.
This volume offers the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary
assessment of Muller's career to date. Arising from a conference
held at the German Historical Institute in London in 2015, it
brings together papers by an international group of experts in
German studies, German and British history, linguistics,
philosophy, English literary studies, and religious studies in
order to examine the many facets of Muller's scholarship. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the Publications of
the English Goethe Society.
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