ISBN:
9783847008965
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (235 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
Berliner Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung. v.23
Parallel Title:
Print version Alt, Peter-André Transforming Topoi : The Exigencies and Impositions of Tradition
DDC:
306.09
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann: Introduction: The Exigencies and Impositions of Tradition -- The Exigencies of the Self-Evident, and Traditions as an Arsenal of Symbolic Politics -- Peter-André Alt: Traditions and the Dynamics of Change: Preliminary Thoughts on a Key Issue in Early Modern Studies -- Phillip H. Stump: Ideas of Reform and Tradition at the Late Medieval Reform Councils -- I. Gerhart Ladner and the Analysis of Reform -- II. Conciliar Reform -- III. Secular Parallels -- IV. Reform and Tradition in Harmony -- V. The Central Topos: Reform in Head and Members -- VI. Reform in Dissonance and Dialogue with Tradition -- Conclusion -- Margitta Rouse: (Un)Veiling the Veil: Trojan Temporalities, Chaucerian Ekphrasis and Literary Innovation in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece -- I. Renewing Lucrece as a ˋTrojan' Figure -- II. Rhetoric Versus Realism, or, the Heartless Early Critic -- III. ˋJust slightly askew': Trojan Ekphrasis, Classical, Medieval and Early Modern -- Maria Muccillo: Philosophy and Orthodoxy: Valuation and Devaluation of the Platonic Tradition in the Late Renaissance -- Anna Laura Puliafito: The Platonic Tradition and its Fates: Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno -- Katharina Krause: Indomptable Valeur: Le Grand Condé and the End of the Hero in Art -- Gideon Stiening: Natural Sociability? The Aristotelian Tradition as a Challenge to Modern Natural Law as Reflected in European Enlightenment Literature: Jonathan Swift - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Johann Karl Wezel -- Introduction -- I. Aristotelianism versus Contractualism -- II. Gulliver's Travels (1726): Inventing Political Tradition -- III. La Nouvelle Héloxse (1761): Demolishing Tradition -- IV. Belphegor (1776): Trumping Tradition -- Conclusion: Political Traditions as Impositions
Abstract:
Stephen Gaukroger: The Enlightenment Historicization of Religion and Philosophy: Fontenelle and Hume -- The Varieties of Understanding -- Bernd Roling: From Centaur to Human: Mythological Tradition in the Works of the French Evolutionists -- Introduction: Encountering and Explaining Mermaids and Satyrs in the Seventeenth Century -- I. A Prelude to Evolutionism: Satyrs, Mermaids and Tailed Men as Intermediary Creatures -- II. Benoît Maillet and his Successors: Mermaids and Satyrs as Part of Evolution -- II.1. Benoît Maillet -- II.2. James Burnett, Lord Monboddo -- II.3. Jean-Baptiste Robinet -- II.4. Jean-Baptiste Izouard Delisle de Sales -- III. The Classification of Species and the End of French Transformationism -- Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann: The Exigencies, Constructions and Inescapabilities of Tradition: To What Extent Can Lebenswelten Be ˋInvented'? -- I. Husserl's Lebenswelt -- II. Lebenswelt, Temporality and Historicity -- II.1 Event -- II.2 Topoi -- II.3 Singularity -- II.4 Intentionality -- II.5 Schemata of Expectation -- II.6 Historiography -- III. Hobsbawm's Invention of Tradition -- Conclusion: Topoi and Lebenswelt -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index
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