Philology in the Making: Analog/Digital Cultures of Scholarly Writing and Reading - Paperback

by Pál Kelemen (Editor), Nicolas Pethes (Editor)

Philological practices have served to secure and transmit textual sources for centuries. However, this volume contends, it is only in the light of the current radical media change labeled the "digital turn" that the material and technological prerequisites of the theory and practice of philology become fully visible. The seventeen studies by scholars from the universities of Budapest and Cologne assembled here investigate these recent transformations of our techniques of writing and reading by critically examining core approaches to the history and epistemology of the humanities. Thus, a broad praxeological overview of basic cultural techniques of collective memory is unfolded.

Author Biography

Pál Kelemen teaches comparative literature at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem in Budapest. His research includes material cultures of nineteenth-century literature, the history and theory of philology, and the culture of everyday life.

Nicolas Pethes teaches modern German literature with a focus on media and science studies at the University of Cologne. His research includes cultural memory studies, literature and science studies, the theory of the novel, and actor network theories.