Philological practices have served to secure and transmit textual sources for centuries.
However - this volume contends - it is only in the light of the current radical media change
labeled >digital turn< that the material and technological prerequisites of the theory and
practice of philology become fully visible. The seventeen studies by scholars from the
universities of Budapest and Cologne assembled here investigate these recent transformations of
our techniques of writing and reading by critically examining core approaches to the history
and epistemology of the humanities. Thus a broad praxeological overview of basic cultural
techniques of collective memory is unfolded.
