Author : W. McGrath
Publisher : Springer
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1137369485
This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich their understanding of freedom as something deeper and more urgent that political life could offer.
Author : W. McGrath
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1137369485
This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich their understanding of freedom as something deeper and more urgent that political life could offer.
Author : E. M. Butler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107697646
This 1935 book studies the powerful influence exercised by Ancient Greek culture on German writers from the eighteenth century onwards.
Author : Christian Meier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0199588031
The book takes us on a tour through the rich spectrum of Greek life and culture, from their epic and lyric poetry, political thought and philosophy, to their social life, military traditions, sport, and religious festivals, and finally to the early stages of Greek democracy. Running as a connecting thread throughout is a people's attempt to create a society based upon the concept of freedom rather than naked power.
Author : M. Pohlenz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 1966-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789027700094
Author : Manfred Frank
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791485803
Often portrayed as a movement of poets lost in swells of passion, early German Romanticism has been generally overlooked by scholars in favor of the great system-builders of the post-Kantian period, Schelling and Hegel. In the twelve lectures collected here, Manfred Frank redresses this oversight, offering an in-depth exploration of the philosophical contributions and contemporary relevance of early German Romanticism. Arguing that the early German Romantics initiated an original movement away from idealism, Frank brings the leading figures of the movement, Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), into concert with contemporary philosophical developments, and explores the role that Friedrich Hölderlin and other members of the Homburg Circle had upon the development of early German Romantic philosophy.
Author : Constanze Guthenke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191528307
Placing Modern Greece is about literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when it became a territorial and political reality as a nation state. Constanze Guthenke claims that the imagining of and attitude towards Greece was shaped by a fascination with the material, and by the highly conceptualized tension between the ideal on the one hand, and the material on the other. Her study focuses on nature and landscape imagery as vehicles of representation, on their specific inner workings, and on their dynamic, which conditions how and whether Greece as a modern entity in the making can be represented at all. Offering readings from German and contemporaneous Greek authors, Guthenke supplies a commentary on the translation and crossings of representational models and their limits.
Author : Ferdinand Saumarez Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9004692304
The age of Enlightenment – the so-called age of reason – was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible.
Author : P. Stock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1137490047
While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates the societies and cultures of the past. Here, leading experts explore the uses of space in two respects: how space can be applied to the study of history, and how space was used at specific times.
Author : Fabrizio De Donno
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 113734203X
The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities.
