The Long Quarrel: Past and Present in the Eighteenth Century

Author:   Jacques Bos ,  Jan Rotmans
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   332
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Pages:   260
Publication Date:   18 November 2021
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The Long Quarrel: Past and Present in the Eighteenth Century examines how the intellectual clashes emerging from the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns continued to reverberate until the end of the eighteenth century. This extended Quarrel was not just about the value of ancient and modern, but about historical thought in a broader sense. The tension between ancient and modern expanded into a more general tension between past and present, which were no longer seen as essentially similar, but as different in nature. Thus, a new kind of historical consciousness came into being in the Long Quarrel of the eighteenth century, which also gave rise to new ideas about knowledge, art, literature and politics. Contributors are: Jacques Bos, Anna Cullhed, Hakon Evju, Vera Fasshauer, Andrew Jainchill, Anton M. Matytsin, Iain McDaniel, Larry F. Norman, David D. Reitsam, Jan Rotmans, Friederike Vosskamp, and Christine Zabel.

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Author:   Jacques Bos ,  Jan Rotmans
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   332
Weight:   0.577kg
ISBN:  

9789004444652


ISBN 10:   9004444653
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   18 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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List of Figures Notes on Contributors Part 1: The Long Quarrel 1 The Long Quarrel in the Eighteenth Century Jacques Bos and Jan Rotmans 2 The Quarrel in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Ancient and Modern to Classical and Romantic Larry F. Norman Part 2: Epistemology 3 The Speculative Foundations of the Quarrel: Fontenelle's Plurality of Inhabited Worlds and the 'Epistemology of the Uncertain' Christine Zabel 4 The Quarrel over Chronology at the Academie des inscriptions: Ancient History, Modern Methods, and the Autonomy of the Historical Discipline Anton M. Matytsin Part 3: Aesthetics 5 Questioning Homer's Iliad? Different Perceptions of the Ancient World in the Pages of the Nouveau Mercure Galant David D. Reitsam 6 Thersites Moralized: Eighteenth-Century Corrective, Apologetic and Exegetic Readings of the Second Book of Homer's Iliad Vera Fasshauer 7 Horace is dead, but I am alive : Epic Failure and Satiric Authority in Eighteenth-Century Sweden Anna Cullhed 8 'Necesse est indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum': William Hogarth's The Four Times of Day and the Challenge to Past Models in Eighteenth-Century Art Friederike Vosskamp Part 4: Politics 9 Ochlocracy and Democracy in the Long Quarrel : Modern Republicanism and Its Ancient Rivals Revisited Iain McDaniel 10 The Political Thought of Henri de Boulainvilliers Reconsidered Andrew Jainchill 11 Between History and Political Economy: The Debate over Ancient Populousness in Eighteenth-Century Denmark-Norway Hakon Evju Bibliography Index

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Jacques Bos, Ph.D. (2003), Leiden University, is associate professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Amsterdam. His principal area of research is early-modern intellectual history. Jan Rotmans obtained his PhD in history from the University of Amsterdam in 2020, where he currently works as a policy officer. His dissertation is entitled Enlightened Pessimism: Republican Decline in Dutch Revolutionary Thought, 1780-1800.

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