/lit/ - Literature

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Classical Philology still carries prestige in Germany, although many people were traumatized by Latin lessons and Greek is barely taught at schools anymore with the exception of a few per state.

Classical Philology is kinda in a weird situation and degrading itself into some kind of Hilfswissenschaft, a more comparative focus or just some fresh air in general would be vitalizing. The University of Heidelberg kinda does this and offers quite many interesting seminars, although primarily because the Latin prof takes initiative. He also wrote many excellent essays on philology and the role of classical philology, but I haven't read them too intensively to be able to summarize them, nor do I honestly know much about the discipline or those languages in general.

I am unsure if we will actually ever have "great writers" of genuine impact again. The internet is here and we can't just go back, resulting in a population of scatterbrains with even the most promising minds being intellectualy assassinated by devilishly manipulative capitalist consumer culture. Pop literature can perhaps be interesting and somewhat clever, but they are not of lasting impact. Ze end of le history? Is the best thing we can do right now to sit back, read past classics and learn some Ancient Greek? Is there even a point in trying to write anymore if there is no proper cultural grounding? Ist es vorbei? Schluss, aus, Ende!? Over, over. It is over...