Jennifer Ham is Professor of German and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she teaches courses on German literature, culture and language and serves as division Chair of Humanities. Jennifer has also published and presented on subjects such as animal studies, Nietzsche, femininity, cabaret, Frank Wedekind and German cinema, and is also coeditor of Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History (Routledge, 1997).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJennifer Ham, Ulrich Kinzel, and David Tse-chien PanChapter 1. Self-cultivation and the Police State: The Political Context of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Concept of BildungUlrich KinzelChapter 2. Fichte’s Conception of Bildung and German National IdentityDavid Tse-chien PanChapter 3. Becoming Solid: Bildung and Storage Media in Moritz’s and Goethe’s Italian TravelsSean FranzelChapter 4. Schinkel’s Altes Museum as “Bildungsmuseum”:  The Aesthetic Education of a National Community and the Makings of the Modern MuseumAndrea MeyertholenChapter 5. From Bildungsmaschine to Willenserziehung:  Nietzsche’s Project of “Heroic Minds”Jennifer HamChapter 6. The Self-Formation of Poetic Expression: Wilhelm Dilthey’s GeistesgeschichteAnna GuilleminChapter 7. Bildung as Dialectical and Theological Hermeneutics in the Service of the HumanitiesJohn SmithConclusionIndex