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

by Edited by R. R. Bolgar

• ISBN13: 9780521142434
• ISBN10: 0521142431
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Editor's note

Contributors

Introduction

The Epilogue to the Renaissance:

Roman law and the national legal systems

Phaenomena bene fundata: from 'saving the appearances' to the mechanisation of the world-picture

L'influence de la tradition hermétique et cabalistique

Emendatio omnium - a pedagogic or a political programme?

Scepticism and religious belief: Pascal, Bayle, Hume

Antiquity as Myth:

Die Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, der Nationalismus und die deutsche

The intermittent beat of classicism

Jean-Jacques Rosseau and the myth of antiquity in the eighteenth century

La formation de l'Athènes bourgeoise: essai d'historiographie 1750-1870

Eighteenth-century American political thought

Antiquity as a Source of Facts:

Vico and ancient rhetoric

Adam Smith's theory of law and society

The early human family: some views 1770-1870

The Nineteenth Century:

The English utilitarians and Athenian democracy

Die Bedeutung der klassischen Vorbilder beim alten

Classical elements in the social, political and educational thought of Tomas and Matthew Arnold

Nietzsche's debt to Heraclitus

Renan et la philologie classique

Index

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