Description:
"It is not sufficiently appreciated, I believe, how profoundly Clio, the muse of history, permeated every aspect of thought during the Romantic era: philosophy, theology, law, natural science, medicine, and all other fields of intellectual endeavor....
Brief description: Theodore Ziolkowski is Class of 1900 Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the author of many books, Ovid and the Moderns, Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany and Hesitant Heroes: Private Inhibition, Cultural Crisis, all three from Cornell.
Review Quotes:
Clio the Romantic Muse is an important and timely book for scholars of religion with a particular interest in the current (and perennial) debates about the constitution of religious studies as a discipline and its relationship to its multifarious institutional settings.... Ziolkowski finally asks rhetorically whether 'a familiarity with an earlier society whose experience was strikingly analogous to our own might provide both a model and a caution for our situation.' For scholars of religion burdened with disquieting questions about the future of the discipline, the answer is assuredly affirmative.
--David L. Simmons "The Journal of Religion"