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Klappentext This volume examines the progress of classical studies to the general history of ideas from 1650 to 1870. Zusammenfassung Dr Bolgar collected! edited and produced this volume on the third international conference on classical influences of 1977. This volume relates the progress of classical studies to the general history of ideas from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. The book will interest specialists in classical studies! and students of literature and eighteenth-century history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
