The Long Quarrel: Past and Present in the Eighteenth Century

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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. List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors viii Part 1. The Long Quarrel 1. The Long Quarrel in the Eighteenth Century 3 Jacques Bos and Jan Rotmans 2. The Quarrel in the Long Eighteenth Century: From “Ancient and Modern” to “Classical and Romantic” 16 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 37 4. The Quarrel over Chronology at the 'Académie des inscriptions': Ancient History, Modern Methods, and the Autonomy of the Historical Discipline / Anton M. Matytsin 59 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 83 6 Thersites Moralized: Eighteenth-Century Corrective, Apologetic and Exegetic Readings of the Second Book of Homer’s 'Iliad' / Vera Fasshauer 99 7 'Horace is dead, but I am alive': Epic Failure and Satiric Authority in Eighteenth-Century Sweden / Anna Cullhed 118 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 138 Part 4. Politics 9. Ochlocracy and Democracy in the 'Long Quarrel': Modern Republicanism and Its Ancient Rivals Revisited / Iain McDaniel 161 10. The Political Thought of Henri de Boulainvilliers Reconsidered / Andrew Jainchill 184 11. Between History and Political Economy: The Debate over Ancient Populousness in Eighteenth-Century Denmark-Norway / Håkon Evju 202 Bibliography 223 Index 252