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

This volume examines the progress of classical studies to the general history of ideas from 1650 to 1870.

R. R. Bolgar (Edited by)

9780521142434, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 10 June 2010

412 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.61 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]