Friedrich Max Muller and the Role of Philology in Victorian Thought (Paperback)

Introduction ? Friedrich Max Muller: The Career and Intellectual Trajectory of a German Philologist in Victorian Britain John R. Davis and Angus Nicholls Part I: Friedrich Max Muller on Language, Metaphor, Religion and Myth 1. ‘Language is our Rubicon’: Friedrich Max Muller’s Quarrel with Hensleigh Wedgwood Michela Piattelli 2. The Victorian Question of the Relation between Language and Thought Marjorie Lorch and Paula Hellal 3. Friedrich Max Muller’s Cultural Concept of Metaphor Andreas Musolff 4. Friedrich Max Muller on Religion and Myth Robert A. Segal 5. Comparative Mythology as a Transnational Enterprise: Friedrich Max Muller’s Scholarly Identity through the Lens of Angelo De Gubernatis’s Correspondence Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn Part II: Max Muller and Religious Studies ? Contribution and Reception 6. Forgotten Bibles: Friedrich Max Muller’s Edition of the Sacred Books of the East Arie L. Molendijk 7. Parallel Lives: Friedrich Max Muller and William Wright Bernhard Maier 8. ‘Ved?ntist of Ved?ntists’? The Problem of Friedrich Max Muller’s Religious Identity Thomas J. Green 9. Friedrich Max Muller and George Eliot: Affinities, Einfuhlung, and the Science of Religion Sarah Barnette 10. ‘A reformed Buddhism […] would help in the distant future to bring about a mutual understanding’: Friedrich Max Muller’s Conceptions of Religious Reform, Ecumenical Dialogue and World Peace Laurent Dedryvere and Stephanie Prevost 11. Friedrich Max Muller and the Emergence of Identity Politics in India and Germany Baijayanti Roy