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It traces the discipline’s rise from devotion to argument, articulation, and “logos” toward a peak in the 19th century, then argues that the 21st century’s boom is structurally followed by decline. It contrasts philology’s tradition of historical language study with a modern shift toward hyper-specialized linguistics and its more “clinical” methods, questioning the discipline’s institutional fate.","In topsy-turvy times like ours—where people staple theirstomachs to lose weight,pets have their own psychiatrists,and dinner guests split bills eleven ways—we tend to findourselves in the rear guard rather than in the avant-garde.Call us old-fashioned,or ol'skool comme disaient les jeunesdantan.Like our antimodernist mascot Molla Nasreddin,ridingbackwards on his donkey,we often look to the past to anticipate,imagine,or rue an impossible future.  \nWith a heavy emphasis on classical languages and  \nOld Testament criticism,and a limited colonial reach (especiallycompared to the land-grab of the Russians,the French,orthe English),a career in German orientalism was anything butlucrative and rarely linked to power.!Where his counterpartsin Paris,Leiden,or London could have expected to work as aninterpreter or a bureaucrat abroad,the German orientalist moreoften than not chose to study 'dead'languages²and settle intoa dusty career in the academy.³  \nBut everyone knows that languages don't just die.They goto heaven.Once there,old men with white beards and burlybabushkas in lab coats meticulously study them,pamper them,give them the scholarly equivalent of a steam-bath,a hamam,the kind of attention they haven't received in decades,orcenturies.These impeccably groomed caretakers imagine howthese languages lived;they reconstruct their lives.They spendyears composing tracts about how one language influencedanother,weaving a genealogical friendship bracelet of sorts,or perhaps a chain of transmission,al-isnad,that would makeeven a skeptical Sufi proud.  \nThis paradise,this sanatorium,this five-star spa iscalled Philology.  \n2.Comparable weight was given to Syriac,Aramaic,and Ancient Greek as was to Arabic or Persian.Dem Syriakischen,Aramaischen oder Altgriechischenwurde ein āhnlicher Stellenwert beigemessen wiedemArabischen oder Persischen.  \n3.Today's critics of creeping corporatization in academia,viz,its problematic hiring policy.will find little comfortin history:throughout the 18th and much of the19th centuries,university appointments in Prussianreceived little if any compensation.Lecturers wereexpected to be individually wealthy or seek privatefunding.Another brick to be thrown at the exceptionof the 20th century?See Sarah Kendzior's article\"Academia's indentured servants\"(AI Jazeera,April 11,2013):http:/iwww.aljazeora.com/indepth/  \n1  \nIn einer turbulenten Zeit wie der unseren-in der sich Menschen den Magen tackernlassen,um Pfunde zu verlieren,Pudel ihrencigenen Psychiater haben und die Rechnungim Restaurant akribisch aufgeteilt wird-schauen wir cher hinterher,als Avantgardezu sein.Nennt uns altmodisch oder ol'skoolcomme disaient les jeunes d'antan.Wie unserantimodernistisches,rückwärts auf seinem Eselreitendes Maskottchen Molla Nasreddin blickenwir oft in die Vergangenheit,um cine unmöglicheZukunft zu antizipieren,zuimaginieren oderzu verdammen.  \nEine Laufbahn in der deutschenOrientalistik-mit dem starken Schwerpunktauf klassische Sprachen und alttestamentarischeKritik sowie ciner geringen kolonialenReichweite(vor allem im Vergleich mit denLänder aneignenden Russen,Franzosen undEngländern)-war nicht besonders lukrativund kaum mit Macht verknüpft.Währendden Kollegen in Paris,Leiden oder Londoneine Arbeit als Dolmetscher oder Beamterim Ausland in Aussicht stand,entschiedensich die deutschen Orientalisten meist für dasStudium von „toten“Sprachen²und richtetensich auf eine knochentrockene Karriere anden Hochschulen ein.³  \nAber wie jeder weiB:Sprachen sterbennicht einfach aus.Sie kommen in den Himmel.Dort werden sie von weiBbärtigen Männernund beleibten Babuschkas in Laborkittelngründlich untersucht,verhätschelt,mitdem wissenschaftlichen Äquivalent einesDampfbads,cinem Hamam,verwöhnt und  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