Meaning of Napoleonology | Babel Free

Definitions

The study of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Examples

“We cited an instance: a certain profound student, eminent, dynamic and successful lawyer, who had the largest Napoleonic library in the South and was most accomplished in (sic) Napoleonology, or bibliography, could not secure a chair in a public school or college to teach⟳ Napoleonic history because he never went through a public school, nor a college, and had no diploma showing a regimented or categoried or set-down number⟳ of ‘credits’.”

“There is the same plea for what he calls a “credible Christology,” though in fact, given his interpretation of Jesus, there is no need⟳ for any Christology at all (just as, given every historian’s interpretation of Napoleon, there is no need⟳ for any specialized Napoleonology either).”

“HELENOLOGY / (An attempt⟳ at the construction of a new science) /[…]/ 2. The sciences about one person, such as Shakespearology, Napoleonology, Pushkinology, Marxology, and so forth, study⟳ the contribution of the given person to history, literature, social thought, and so forth.[…]/ 3. As much as Being in itself is higher than its separate⟳ accomplishments, so Helenology is higher than Napoleonology, Marxology, and other disciplines devoted to the unique achievements of a single individual, since it is devoted to the very existence of the unique.”

“25 Nov 1900[…]Many thanks for Napoleon. I shall read⟳ it with pleasure at least for the sake of the sender [?] as I had it not. Nor did I intend⟳ to obtain⟳ it, because I was not favourably impressed by the notices of it I had seen in the papers. Nor has Napoleonology [?] been a favourite study⟳ with me. / Yours always very truly / John Williams”

“Like⟳ any theology, ‘Napoleonology’ is a form⟳ of study⟳ that aims at acquiring knowledge, but it suffers from one crucial limitation: it fails to explore⟳ its subject with due critical rigour.”

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