George S Williamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1042269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George S Williamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | George S |
| FAMILY NAME | Williamson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMSON G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The God behind the Marble
Jena 1800
The German Awakening
Nicholas A. Germana. The Anxiety of Autonomy and the Aesthetics of German Orientalism
In his pathbreaking study Orientalism (1978), Edward W. Said famously passed over the work of German scholars and writers, excusing this omission on the grounds that nineteenth-century Germany lacked a formal empire in India or the Middle East. In the past two decades, scholars have rushed to fill this gap, with some arguing that German ruminations on “the Orient” were indeed motivated by colonialist concerns and others stressing the importance o…
Retracing the Sattelzeit
The era of the French Revolution and the Napoleon Wars left a deep mark not only on political, social, and cultural life in German-speaking Europe, but also on German academic historiography as it emerged over the course of the nineteenth century. Both before and after the formation of the Kaiserreich , professional historians like Leopold von Ranke, Johann Gustav Droysen, Heinrich von Sybel, and Heinrich von Treitschke sought in their scholarshi…
TheChrist MythDebate
In 1909, the philosopher Arthur Drews unleashed a brief but furious debate when he publishedDie Christusmythe, in which he denied the historicity of Jesus Christ. This article seeks to understand the origin and significance of the "Christ Myth" controversy, focusing not simply on its scholarly content, but also on the historical contexts in which it unfolded, in particular the increasingly public and popular nature of theological debate in late W…
Die Semantik des Schicksals. Zur Relevanz des Unverfügbaren zwischen Aufklärung und Erstem Weltkrieg
‘Der Mensch ist nicht der Zweck von Millionen Sternen, / Die er theils kaum erkennt, theils nie wird kennen lernen;/ Und daß ein Ländchen nur sein künftig Unglück sieht, /Schickt Gott nicht eine Welt, die dort am Himmel glüht’. (p. 71). [Man is not the purpose of a million stars / some of which he barely recognizes, some of which he will never know; / God does not provide a world that glows up in the heavens / Only that a small country should see…
Peter Gay (1923–2015)
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The Lost Worlds of German Orientalism
The opening lines of Franz Delitzsch's Babel und Bibel (1902, 195) offer an unusually frank confession of the personal and psychological motives that animated German orientalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Delitzsch and countless others like him, orientalist scholarship provided an opportunity not just to expand their knowledge of the Near East and India, but also to explore the world of the Bible and, in doing so, effect…
Continental Divide
Reviewed by: Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos George S. Williamson Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. By Peter E. Gordon. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 426. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 978-0674047136. In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer held a public “disputation” as part of a three-week conference in Davos, Switzerland. According to most accounts, the debate was carried out i…
Dreaming in Books
Journal Article Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age Get access Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age. By Andrew Piper. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2009. 320 pages. $35.00/£24 (hardback). George S. Williamson George S. Williamson Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, V…
The Travelers' World
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A Religious Sonderweg? Reflections on the Sacred and the Secular in the Historiography of Modern Germany
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A German Life in the Age of Revolution
A cursory glance at the dates of the title of this volume points out an intriguing relationship: the boundaries of Joseph Goerres's life correspond with the highs and lows of liberal democratic movements in the West, from the enthusiasm of the British colonies' Declaration of Independence in North America to the exuberant revolutions of 1848 that heralded the failure of the revolutionaries' dreams and the suppression of their democratic sympathie…
The Nation as a Local Metaphor
What Killed August von Kotzebue? The Temptations of Virtue and the Political Theology of German Nationalism, 1789-1819
A Religious Sonderweg? Reflections on the Sacred and the Secular in the Historiography of Modern Germany
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Retracing the Sattelzeit
The era of the French Revolution and the Napoleon Wars left a deep mark not only on political, social, and cultural life in German-speaking Europe, but also on German academic historiography as it emerged over the course of the nineteenth century. Both before and after the formation of the Kaiserreich , professional historians like Leopold von Ranke, Johann Gustav Droysen, Heinrich von Sybel, and Heinrich von Treitschke sought in their scholarshi…
What Killed August von Kotzebue? The Temptations of Virtue and the Political Theology of German Nationalism, 1789-1819
Peter Gay (1923–2015)
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The Nation as a Local Metaphor
What Killed August von Kotzebue? The Temptations of Virtue and the Political Theology of German Nationalism, 1789-1819
A German Life in the Age of Revolution
A cursory glance at the dates of the title of this volume points out an intriguing relationship: the boundaries of Joseph Goerres's life correspond with the highs and lows of liberal democratic movements in the West, from the enthusiasm of the British colonies' Declaration of Independence in North America to the exuberant revolutions of 1848 that heralded the failure of the revolutionaries' dreams and the suppression of their democratic sympathie…
A Religious Sonderweg? Reflections on the Sacred and the Secular in the Historiography of Modern Germany
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The Travelers' World
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Dreaming in Books
Journal Article Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age Get access Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age. By Andrew Piper. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2009. 320 pages. $35.00/£24 (hardback). George S. Williamson George S. Williamson Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, V…
The Lost Worlds of German Orientalism
The opening lines of Franz Delitzsch's Babel und Bibel (1902, 195) offer an unusually frank confession of the personal and psychological motives that animated German orientalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Delitzsch and countless others like him, orientalist scholarship provided an opportunity not just to expand their knowledge of the Near East and India, but also to explore the world of the Bible and, in doing so, effect…
Continental Divide
Reviewed by: Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos George S. Williamson Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. By Peter E. Gordon. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 426. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 978-0674047136. In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer held a public “disputation” as part of a three-week conference in Davos, Switzerland. According to most accounts, the debate was carried out i…
Die Semantik des Schicksals. Zur Relevanz des Unverfügbaren zwischen Aufklärung und Erstem Weltkrieg
‘Der Mensch ist nicht der Zweck von Millionen Sternen, / Die er theils kaum erkennt, theils nie wird kennen lernen;/ Und daß ein Ländchen nur sein künftig Unglück sieht, /Schickt Gott nicht eine Welt, die dort am Himmel glüht’. (p. 71). [Man is not the purpose of a million stars / some of which he barely recognizes, some of which he will never know; / God does not provide a world that glows up in the heavens / Only that a small country should see…
Peter Gay (1923–2015)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
TheChrist MythDebate
In 1909, the philosopher Arthur Drews unleashed a brief but furious debate when he publishedDie Christusmythe, in which he denied the historicity of Jesus Christ. This article seeks to understand the origin and significance of the "Christ Myth" controversy, focusing not simply on its scholarly content, but also on the historical contexts in which it unfolded, in particular the increasingly public and popular nature of theological debate in late W…
Retracing the Sattelzeit
The era of the French Revolution and the Napoleon Wars left a deep mark not only on political, social, and cultural life in German-speaking Europe, but also on German academic historiography as it emerged over the course of the nineteenth century. Both before and after the formation of the Kaiserreich , professional historians like Leopold von Ranke, Johann Gustav Droysen, Heinrich von Sybel, and Heinrich von Treitschke sought in their scholarshi…
Nicholas A. Germana. The Anxiety of Autonomy and the Aesthetics of German Orientalism
In his pathbreaking study Orientalism (1978), Edward W. Said famously passed over the work of German scholars and writers, excusing this omission on the grounds that nineteenth-century Germany lacked a formal empire in India or the Middle East. In the past two decades, scholars have rushed to fill this gap, with some arguing that German ruminations on “the Orient” were indeed motivated by colonialist concerns and others stressing the importance o…
The German Awakening
Jena 1800
The God behind the Marble
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