David Tse-chien Pan is Professor of European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and the editor of Telos. He is the author of Primitive Renaissance: Rethinking German Expressionism (University of Nebraska Press, 2001) and Sacrifice in the Modern World: On the Particularity and Generality of Nazi Myth (Northwestern University Press, 2012).

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Introduction
Jennifer Ham, Ulrich Kinzel, and David Tse-chien Pan

Chapter 1. Self-cultivation and the Police State: The Political Context of Wilhelm von Humboldt's Concept of Bildung
Ulrich Kinzel

Chapter 2. Fichte's Conception of Bildung and German National Identity
David Tse-chien Pan

Chapter 3. Becoming Solid: Bildung and Storage Media in Moritz's and Goethe's Italian Travels
Sean Franzel

Chapter 4. Schinkel's Altes Museum as "Bildungsmuseum":  The Aesthetic Education of a National Community and the Makings of the Modern Museum
Andrea Meyertholen

Chapter 5. From Bildungsmaschine to Willenserziehung:  Nietzsche's Project of "Heroic Minds"
Jennifer Ham

Chapter 6. The Self-Formation of Poetic Expression: Wilhelm Dilthey's Geistesgeschichte
Anna Guillemin

Chapter 7. Bildung as Dialectical and Theological Hermeneutics in the Service of the Humanities
John Smith

Conclusion

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