Read Out of Arcadia: Classics and Politics in the Age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz

Out of Arcadia: Classics and Politics in the Age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz

Unknown Author

4.9/5 (21331 ratings)

Description:For centuries the glories of ancient Greece were upheld as the embodiment of cultural and political greatness although by the later 19th century cultural pessimism and elitism' had begun to infest classical research with investigations into the darker sides of the ancients. These revised papers from a conference held in Princeton in 1999 examine the transformations that took place in German classical scholarship during the 18th and 19th centuries and look in particular at three figures that held a pivotal role in major debates of the time - Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz. Together the contributors study the gradual erosion of the neohumanist, emancipatory legacy of philhellenism in the Wilhelmine era and the increasing susceptibility of classical scholars to iliberal, nationalist and - especially after World War I - racist beliefs'.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Out of Arcadia: Classics and Politics in the Age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz. To get started finding Out of Arcadia: Classics and Politics in the Age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London

Release: —

ISBN: 0900587903

Description: For centuries the glories of ancient Greece were upheld as the embodiment of cultural and political greatness although by the later 19th century cultural pessimism and elitism' had begun to infest classical research with investigations into the darker sides of the ancients. These revised papers from a conference held in Princeton in 1999 examine the transformations that took place in German classical scholarship during the 18th and 19th centuries and look in particular at three figures that held a pivotal role in major debates of the time - Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz. Together the contributors study the gradual erosion of the neohumanist, emancipatory legacy of philhellenism in the Wilhelmine era and the increasing susceptibility of classical scholars to iliberal, nationalist and - especially after World War I - racist beliefs'.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Out of Arcadia: Classics and Politics in the Age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz. To get started finding Out of Arcadia: Classics and Politics in the Age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Out of Arcadia: Classics and Politics in the Age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz

Out of Arcadia: Classics and Politics in the Age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz

More Books