Classical Influences on Western Thought A.D. 1650-1870

by R. R. Bolgar (Editor)

Overview

The third international conference on classical influences took place in Cambridge in 1977 under the title 'Classical Influences in Western Education, Philosophy and Social Theory'. Dr Bolgar has here collected and edited the proceedings and produced a volume which attempts to relate the progress of classical studies to the general history of ideas from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. The book should be of interest to specialists in classical studies, to students of the literature of the period, and to students of eighteenth-century French, Italian and American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521142434
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/10/2010
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

Preface L. P. Wilkinson; Editor's note; Contributors; Introduction R. R. Bolgar; Part I. The Epilogue to the Renaissance: 1. Roman law and the national legal systems H. Coing; 2. Phaenomena bene fundata: from 'saving the appearances' to the mechanisation of the world-picture J. Mittelstrass; 3. L'influence de la tradition hermétique et cabalistique C. Vasoli; 4. Emendatio omnium - a pedagogic or a political programme? K. Schaller; 5. Scepticism and religious belief: Pascal, Bayle, Hume E. D. James; Part II. Antiquity as Myth: 6. Die Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, der Nationalismus und die deutsche Klassik M. Furmann; 7. The intermittent beat of classicism J. H. Whitfield; 8. Jean-Jacques Rosseau and the myth of antiquity in the eighteenth century R. A. Leigh; 9. La formation de l'Athènes bourgeoise: essai d'historiographie 1750–1870 N. Loraux et P. Vidal-Naquet; 10. Eighteenth-century American political thought M. Reinhold; Part III. Antiquity as a Source of Facts: 11. Vico and ancient rhetoric G. Costa; 12. Adam Smith's theory of law and society P. G. Stein; 13. The early human family: some views 1770–1870 S. G. Pembroke; Part IV. The Nineteenth Century: 14. The English utilitarians and Athenian democracy H. O. Pappé; 15. Die Bedeutung der klassischen Vorbilder beim alten Goethe T. Gelzer; 16. Classical elements in the social, political and educational thought of Tomas and Matthew Arnold R. R. Bolgar; 17. Nietzsche's debt to Heraclitus U. Hölscher; 18. Renan et la philologie classique J. Seznec; Index.