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Friedrich Max Müller : A Life Devoted to Humanities

2002rif. 52837Leiden: Brill 2002. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Octavo. xxiv 579 1pp. Index and 26 page bibliography. Pictorial buckram lavender spine lettered in white & black Illustrated with several photographic portraits. A near fine but ex-library copy with paper label call letters at foot of spine rubber library stamp on title and at bottom edge of text block etc. Friedrich Max Müller was one of the great scholars of the nineteenth century. His studies on the history and nature of religion were of great interest to both scholarly and more popular circles and he was for a long time an influential figure in the cultural life of Victorian Britain. Therefore a new study of his life and especially of his works needs no apology. The book gives a survey of Müller’s life and his main ideas on language mythology religion Christianity and the missions as well as his philosophy of religion. The last chapter deals with the legacy of Müller’s ideas in the twentieth century. The book is particularly useful for historians of religion interested in the origin of the science of religion and for historians specialized in the history of ideas. Publisher Contents: Intro; FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER: A Life Devoted to the Humanities; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; I. THE LIFE OF FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER: A BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY; 1. Introduction; 2. The early years; 3. Leipzig Berlin and Paris; 4. Max Muller and the textual edition of the Rigveda; 5. Life in Oxford between 1847-1855; 6. A life in love and devotion: Oxford 1855-1860; 7. Max Muller and the study of language 1860-1870; 8. The message of religion in a period of doubt 1870-1880; 9. Natural religion and the study of mysticism 1880-1893; 10. The final years: 1893-1900Note on Miiller's View of Biography; II. LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT; 1. Language as the barrier between brute and man; 2. Theories on the origin of language; 3. Some reflections on language by Romantic philosophers; 4. The comparative study of the Inda-European languages; 5. The construction of the concept of the Aryan "race; 6. The stratification of language and the palaeontology of the human mind; 7. Is the science of language a physical or an historical science; 8. On phonetic corruption and dialectic regeneration; 9. Roots as the ultimate facts in the science of language 10. On the relationship between language and thought; 11. In search of origins; III. MYTHOLOGY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE; 1. The undercurrent of mythology; 2. Mythology and etymology; 3. Mythology and nature poetry; 4. The Rigveda and nature poetry; 5. Mythology and thought; 6. Mythology as a disease of language; 7. Fundamental metaphors and mythology; 8. The physical substratum of ancient mythology; 9. The Genealogical or Etymological School of comparative mythology; 10. The example of Daphne and Phoibos Apollo; 11. The three methods for the study of comparative mythology IV. THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION; 1. Introduction; 2. A definition of religion; 3. Religion morality and sacrifice; 4. The Infinite and its manifestation in the history of religion; 5. Vedic religion and the origin of religion; 6. The Historical and Theoretical Schools on the origin of religion; 7. The Sacred Books of the East; 8. Henotheism polytheism and monotheism; 9. Conclusions; V. CHRISTIANITY COLONIALISM AND THE MISSIONS; I. Introduction; 2. Aryanism colonialism and the missionary enterprise; 3. A theology of religions; 4. The science of religion and the missions 5. From polemics to peaceful coexistence and religious dialogue; 6. Max Mūller in dialogue with representatives of the Brahmo Samaj; 7. Conclusions; VI. A PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION; 1. Introduction; 2. Max Miiller and the philosophy of Enlightenment and Idealism; 3. Natural religion and the idea of the Divine; 4. Physical religion; 5. Anthropological religion; 6. Theosophy; 7. Conclusions; VIL MŪLLER'S LEGACY; 1. Introduction; 2. Posthumous publications; 3. Changes in the study of language; 4. The changed approach to the science of religion Volume 94 of Brill's "Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions. Brill hardcover