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The European Legacy, 2019
In a paper presented to the American Historical Association annual meeting in 1934, entitled "The... more In a paper presented to the American Historical Association annual meeting in 1934, entitled "The Predicament of History," Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) argued that professional (or "scientific") historians had lost touch with collective memory and were engaged in a free-floating enterprise connected to the vital past only arbitrarily or randomly. Historians should be the physicians of memory, he said. His admonitions relate closely to the stress, often discussed today, between popular heritage, or tradition and memory, on the one side, and critical history, on the other, each vying for influence and authority. Beyond his 1934 paper, Rosenstock-Huessy's grammatical method opens the way for complementarity and balance, rather than antagonism, between the popular voice and critical history.
Choice Reviews Online, 2011
The European Legacy, 2017
Abstract A human life is not made up of measurable equal increments. There are crises, setbacks a... more Abstract A human life is not made up of measurable equal increments. There are crises, setbacks and advances, obstacles and pathways, highs and lows. The prevailing methods for the study of significant lives, insofar as there is any interest at all in the subject, are hampered by scientism and materialism. The means for understanding how we progress as individuals in relation to society and to the future of humankind cannot be found in the standard disciplines of psychology or sociology, which are looking for measurable results and are dominated by the quest for objectivity. Guided primarily by the thought of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, we observe here the patterns in the life of two pioneering physicians, centuries apart, Theophrastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, and Sigmund Freud. Inspiration, revelation, conversion, orientation, grace are at the center, but none of these terms is reducible to material measurement. A new approach is suggested that better informs us about what makes the world go ‘round, the grammatical imperative, which subsumes even love.
The Hastings Center Report, 1982
Book reviewed in this article: Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth Century Harvard. By Norman Fiering.
The New England Quarterly, 1982
Culture, Theory and Critique, 2014
The William and Mary Quarterly, 1976
H ^ 'ISTORIANS have long been familiar with the pervasive influence of the English genteel pe... more H ^ 'ISTORIANS have long been familiar with the pervasive influence of the English genteel periodical on colonial American letters. As early as July 1710, William Byrd II was reading the Tatler at Westover. Benjamin Franklin, it is well known, cultivated his perspicuous style in imitation of the Spectator, bound copies of which were in his older brother's newspaper office by I72i at the latest. Jonathan Edwards's manuscript "Catalogue" of reading reveals that he not only knew the Spectator before I720 but was so enamored of Richard Steele that he tried to get his hands on everything that issued from the essayist's active pen: the Guardian, the Englishman, the Reader, and more. At Harvard College in I72i a weekly periodical entitled the Telltale was inaugurated by a group of students, including Ebenezer Pemberton (the younger), Charles Chauncy, and Isaac Greenwood. As the Telltale's subtitleCriticisms on the Conversation and Behaviour of Schollars to promote right reasoning and good manners"made explicit, it was a direct imitation of the English genteel periodical. The American Samuel Johnson, fresh from Yale College, had read most of the Spectator before I7I9. And in I7I3 Cotton Mather noted in his diary his intention to send "some agreeable Things" to the Spectator, that "there may be brought forward some Services to the best Interests in the Nation." Even later in the century the Spectator's charms had not dimmed, for James Madison read it in I763 when he was twelve and recorded in his short "Autobiography," written about i833, that "from his own experience" he believed the Spectator "to be peculiarly adapted to inculcate in youthful
The William and Mary Quarterly, 1972
The William and Mary Quarterly, 1971
Page 1. President Samuel Johnson and the Circle of Knowledge Norman S. Fiering* ... He would like... more Page 1. President Samuel Johnson and the Circle of Knowledge Norman S. Fiering* ... He would like to thank Professor Walter J. Ong, SJ, of St. Louis University, and Professor Wilbur Samuel Howell of Princeton University, for critical readings of an early draft of this paper. ...
The William and Mary Quarterly, 2002
Page 1. EUROPEAN EXPANSION & GLOBAL INTERACTIO VoIu me 1 THE LANGUAGE ENCOUNTER IN THE AM... more Page 1. EUROPEAN EXPANSION & GLOBAL INTERACTIO VoIu me 1 THE LANGUAGE ENCOUNTER IN THE AMERICAS 1492-1800 - Edited by ward G. Gray & Norman Fiering Page 2. Page 3. THE LANGUAGE ENCOUNTER ...
Reviews in American History, 1984
... This point of view, which places Mather as a forerunner of the Great Awakening rather than as... more ... This point of view, which places Mather as a forerunner of the Great Awakening rather than as the last major representative of a decaying past, becomes quite explicit in The American Pietism of Cotton Mather: Origins of American Evangelicalism (1979) by Richard F. Lovelace ...
Reviews in American History, 1983
Reviews in American History, 1982
The New England Quarterly, 1985
The New England Quarterly, 1981
... NORMAN FIERING ... In a letter that Henry Newman wrote to Benjamin Colman on 24 Septem-ber 17... more ... NORMAN FIERING ... In a letter that Henry Newman wrote to Benjamin Colman on 24 Septem-ber 1736, Newman recorded Increase Mather's remark to Dr. William Bates ... See James O'Higgins, SJ, Anthony Collins: The Man and His Works (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970), pp. ...
The European Legacy, 2019
In a paper presented to the American Historical Association annual meeting in 1934, entitled "The... more In a paper presented to the American Historical Association annual meeting in 1934, entitled "The Predicament of History," Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) argued that professional (or "scientific") historians had lost touch with collective memory and were engaged in a free-floating enterprise connected to the vital past only arbitrarily or randomly. Historians should be the physicians of memory, he said. His admonitions relate closely to the stress, often discussed today, between popular heritage, or tradition and memory, on the one side, and critical history, on the other, each vying for influence and authority. Beyond his 1934 paper, Rosenstock-Huessy's grammatical method opens the way for complementarity and balance, rather than antagonism, between the popular voice and critical history.
Choice Reviews Online, 2011
The European Legacy, 2017
Abstract A human life is not made up of measurable equal increments. There are crises, setbacks a... more Abstract A human life is not made up of measurable equal increments. There are crises, setbacks and advances, obstacles and pathways, highs and lows. The prevailing methods for the study of significant lives, insofar as there is any interest at all in the subject, are hampered by scientism and materialism. The means for understanding how we progress as individuals in relation to society and to the future of humankind cannot be found in the standard disciplines of psychology or sociology, which are looking for measurable results and are dominated by the quest for objectivity. Guided primarily by the thought of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, we observe here the patterns in the life of two pioneering physicians, centuries apart, Theophrastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, and Sigmund Freud. Inspiration, revelation, conversion, orientation, grace are at the center, but none of these terms is reducible to material measurement. A new approach is suggested that better informs us about what makes the world go ‘round, the grammatical imperative, which subsumes even love.
The Hastings Center Report, 1982
Book reviewed in this article: Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth Century Harvard. By Norman Fiering.
The New England Quarterly, 1982
Culture, Theory and Critique, 2014
The William and Mary Quarterly, 1976
H ^ 'ISTORIANS have long been familiar with the pervasive influence of the English genteel pe... more H ^ 'ISTORIANS have long been familiar with the pervasive influence of the English genteel periodical on colonial American letters. As early as July 1710, William Byrd II was reading the Tatler at Westover. Benjamin Franklin, it is well known, cultivated his perspicuous style in imitation of the Spectator, bound copies of which were in his older brother's newspaper office by I72i at the latest. Jonathan Edwards's manuscript "Catalogue" of reading reveals that he not only knew the Spectator before I720 but was so enamored of Richard Steele that he tried to get his hands on everything that issued from the essayist's active pen: the Guardian, the Englishman, the Reader, and more. At Harvard College in I72i a weekly periodical entitled the Telltale was inaugurated by a group of students, including Ebenezer Pemberton (the younger), Charles Chauncy, and Isaac Greenwood. As the Telltale's subtitleCriticisms on the Conversation and Behaviour of Schollars to promote right reasoning and good manners"made explicit, it was a direct imitation of the English genteel periodical. The American Samuel Johnson, fresh from Yale College, had read most of the Spectator before I7I9. And in I7I3 Cotton Mather noted in his diary his intention to send "some agreeable Things" to the Spectator, that "there may be brought forward some Services to the best Interests in the Nation." Even later in the century the Spectator's charms had not dimmed, for James Madison read it in I763 when he was twelve and recorded in his short "Autobiography," written about i833, that "from his own experience" he believed the Spectator "to be peculiarly adapted to inculcate in youthful
The William and Mary Quarterly, 1972
The William and Mary Quarterly, 1971
Page 1. President Samuel Johnson and the Circle of Knowledge Norman S. Fiering* ... He would like... more Page 1. President Samuel Johnson and the Circle of Knowledge Norman S. Fiering* ... He would like to thank Professor Walter J. Ong, SJ, of St. Louis University, and Professor Wilbur Samuel Howell of Princeton University, for critical readings of an early draft of this paper. ...
The William and Mary Quarterly, 2002
Page 1. EUROPEAN EXPANSION & GLOBAL INTERACTIO VoIu me 1 THE LANGUAGE ENCOUNTER IN THE AM... more Page 1. EUROPEAN EXPANSION & GLOBAL INTERACTIO VoIu me 1 THE LANGUAGE ENCOUNTER IN THE AMERICAS 1492-1800 - Edited by ward G. Gray & Norman Fiering Page 2. Page 3. THE LANGUAGE ENCOUNTER ...
Reviews in American History, 1984
... This point of view, which places Mather as a forerunner of the Great Awakening rather than as... more ... This point of view, which places Mather as a forerunner of the Great Awakening rather than as the last major representative of a decaying past, becomes quite explicit in The American Pietism of Cotton Mather: Origins of American Evangelicalism (1979) by Richard F. Lovelace ...
Reviews in American History, 1983
Reviews in American History, 1982
The New England Quarterly, 1985
The New England Quarterly, 1981
... NORMAN FIERING ... In a letter that Henry Newman wrote to Benjamin Colman on 24 Septem-ber 17... more ... NORMAN FIERING ... In a letter that Henry Newman wrote to Benjamin Colman on 24 Septem-ber 1736, Newman recorded Increase Mather's remark to Dr. William Bates ... See James O'Higgins, SJ, Anthony Collins: The Man and His Works (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970), pp. ...