Abstract

Nietzsche's and Friedrich Schlegel's philological theories share certain similarities that extend into their deeper philological conceptions and methodologies. Taking at its point of departure Walter Benjamin's notion of a Romantic art criticism that perfects its object in the moment of its critique, this essay attempts to demonstrate that when Schlegel and Nietzsche turn from philological practice to a more fundamental theory of a proper philological methodology, each seeks to formulate an understanding of Greek culture that can be applied as a critical tool for the transformation of their own present-day culture. This common cultural-critical thrust reveals Schlegel and Nietzsche to be future-oriented philologists in the sense that their application of philological insights to contemporary cultural concerns anticipates the ideology-critical direction evident in certain forms of philology as practiced today.

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