"Friends of Lento": On Slow Reading Attitudes in German Educational Culture
This article presents the results of a study of the historical significance of slow reading in relation to German philosophical and philological educational culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, within the general didactic and methodological context of the 1990s and 2000s. It is noted that the historicism of "langsames Lesen" is relevant in the context of a certain humanitarian revival of reading as a modern fundamental educational and life practice. Overall, the article has an interdisciplinary nature and aims to identify the semantic resources of slow reading in relation to Russian and German hermeneutic traditions. Texts by German philologists and educators M. Bickenbach, H. Gfereis, and M. Wolf are analytically reviewed and introduced into Russian-language scholarly circulation. In these texts, slow reading is substantiated as a humanitarian necessity; certain points of historical unity between German and Russian approaches to slow reading are noted.
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