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 the "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.