Necrophilia

  • Lorraine Daston Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

Constanze Güthenke’s Feeling and Classical Philology (Cambridge, 2020) prompts wider reflections on the balance between empathy and distance, and between personality and context in classical scholarship. This paper explores some implications of that line of enquiry.

Author Biography

Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

ldaston@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

© Lorraine Daston

Published
2021-02-26
Section
Articles