The philological perspective

Abstract

This text presents what it defines as the “philological perspective”, i.e., what is here proposed to be the core of philology in its various disciplinary manifestations. To that end, after establishing that this core is textual historicism, it discusses two fundamental directions of philological studies and seeks to demonstrate how they are both firmly rooted in that conceptual matrix. It finally suggests that these directions, albeit apparently divergent, are actually closely related and perfectly compatible.