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Journal articles on the topic "The quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns"
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Taylor, Helena. "Translating Lives: Ovid and the Seventeenth-Century Modernes." Translation and Literature 24, no. 2 (July 2015): 147–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2015.0199.
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This essay argues that during the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns in late seventeenth-century Paris, the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, held a particular appeal for the ‘Moderns’. Tracing the historiography of Ovid's life from his autobiographical Tristia through the Renaissance vitae Ovidii to the prefatory vies d'Ovide of the seventeenth century reveals that lives were synecdochic for ideological stances towards the representation and translation of the ancient world; and that there was a specific identification between the narration of Ovid's Life and ‘Modern’ approaches to such representation. It suggests that this was because Ovid had already inscribed the interpretation and appropriation of tradition that underpinned the Moderns' attitude towards classical culture into his own version of his life, hence his ‘translation’ into a proto-Moderne, a figure heralding paradigmatic change.
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STAUFFER, DEVIN. "Reopening the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns: Leo Strauss's Critique of Hobbes's “New Political Science”." American Political Science Review 101, no. 2 (May 2007): 223–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055407070141.
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Leo Strauss's greatest project was his attempt to resurrect classical political philosophy by reawakening the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns. This essay illuminates Strauss's view of that quarrel by considering a crucial stage in the development of his understanding of the most important differences between ancient and modern political philosophy. Strauss's critique of Hobbes inThe Political Philosophy of Hobbesculminates in a striking comparison of Hobbes's distinctively modern approach to political philosophy with the approach of Plato and Aristotle. By examining Strauss's critique of Hobbes's “new political science,” this essay brings out the view of the deficiencies in modern political philosophy that led Strauss to conceive of the possibility of a genuine return to classical thought.
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Rosen, Stanley. "Is there a quarrel between the ancients and the moderns?" Society 39, no. 5 (July 2002): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02717538.
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Levine, Joseph M. "Giambattista Vico and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns." Journal of the History of Ideas 52, no. 1 (January 1991): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2709582.
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FORCE, PIERRE. "VOLTAIRE AND THE NECESSITY OF MODERN HISTORY." Modern Intellectual History 6, no. 3 (November 2009): 457–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147924430999014x.
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This article revisits what has often been called the “naive presentism” of Voltaire's historical work. It looks at the methodological and philosophical reasons for Voltaire's deliberate focus on modern history as opposed to ancient history, his refusal to “make allowances for time” in judging the past, and his extreme selectiveness in determining the relevance of past events to world history. Voltaire's historical practice is put in the context of the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns, and considered in a tradition of universal history going back to Bossuet and leading up to nineteenth-century German historicism. Paradoxically, Voltaire is a major figure in the history of historiography not in spite of his presentism (as Ernst Cassirer and Peter Gay have argued), but because of it.
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Nagy, Eugene L. "The Passion of Understanding: Preliminary Remarks on Strauss’ Quarrel Between Ancients and Moderns." Catholic Social Science Review 14 (2009): 75–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/cssr2009148.
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GICQUEL, JJ, and PJ PISELLA. "Shack-Hartmann aberrometry vs OQAS : the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns ?" Acta Ophthalmologica 90 (August 6, 2012): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-3768.2012.2433.x.
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Martins, Juliana Timbó. "A construção de uma literatura moderna nas obras de Charles Perrault em meio a querela dos Antigos e dos Modernos * The construction of a modern literature in Charles Perrault's works in the middle of the quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns." História e Cultura 7, no. 2 (December 2, 2018): 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.18223/hiscult.v7i2.2682.
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Conhecida, já no século XVII, como querela dos Antigos e dos Modernos, a série de debates entre membros da Academia Francesa opôs, de um lado, aqueles que defendiam a exemplaridade da Antiguidade na produção artística e literária do período e, de outro, os partidários da legitimidade da criatividade dos artistas modernos. Entre os letrados que em pleno reinado de Luís XIV deram ensejo a essa disputa, Charles Perrault se destacou não apenas como porta-voz dos autointitulados Modernos, mas também como o estopim e catalisador do debate. Nesse sentido, este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar as ideias e argumentos do poeta francês durante a querela a fim de evidenciar em suas obras tanto a defesa de uma literatura moderna, entendida como arte que expressa a singularidade de seu tempo, quanto o exercício de suas premissas na escrita de Contos da Mamãe Gansa, obra de maior sucesso do autor e da literatura francesa.*Already known in the seventeenth century as the quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, the series of debates between members of the French Academy opposed, from one side, those who defended the exemplarity of antiquity in the artistic and literary production in that age and, on the other side, the legitimacy partisans of the modern artists’ creativity. Among the scholars who, during Louis XIV’s reign, created the occasion to such dispute, Charles Perrault stood out not only as an advocate to Moderns, but also as the trigger and the catalyst of the debate. In this regard, this paper aims to present the ideas and arguments of the French poet during the quarrel in order to highlight in his works both the defense of modern literature whereas art that expresses its time’s singularity, and the exercise of his premises in the writing of Tales of Mother Goose, the most successful work of the author and French literature.
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Rubin-Detlev, Kelsey. "An Ancient in Catherinian Russia: Classical Reception, Sensibility, and Nobility in Princess Ekaterina Urusova's Poetry of the 1770s." Slavic Review 80, no. 1 (2021): 90–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/slr.2021.31.
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This article argues for the importance of Princess E.S. Urusova's four poems published between 1772 and 1777 to scholarly discussions of both classical reception and noble culture. Urusova engages more intensively than any other Russian writer of the period with the European Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, formulating thereby unique responses to major literary and political concerns of the 1770s. In the literary sphere, the Quarrel allows Urusova to conceptualize with exceptional perspicacity the multifaceted cultural environment of the time: contributing to Russia's claim to be the direct heir of the Greeks and Romans, she also makes the interesting case that the emerging culture of sensibility ideally equips readers and writers to absorb the classics. In the political sphere, by evoking the framework of ancient virtue through classical intertexts, she envisages an alliance between the sovereign and a strong nobility based on both cultural refinement and a sense of duty and service to the nation. Urusova's case shows how imitating and reinterpreting the classics helped one woman to find her voice as a poet in eighteenth-century Russia.
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Mehigan, Tim. "Schiller after Kant: The “Unexpected Science” of theBriefe über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen." Kant-Studien 111, no. 2 (May 26, 2020): 285–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kant-2020-0018.
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AbstractIn the Briefe über die Ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen, the focus of this article, Schiller’s ostensible aim – to complete Kant’s aesthetic theory – is progressively abandoned. The article examines the reasons for this abandonment. On the one hand, Schiller’s original purpose was overtaken by events in France. Schiller found that he could no longer sustain confidence in reason’s capacity to build a durable political republic. On the other hand, the alternative path he favours involves him in the expounding of an anthropology he did not set out to undertake. The Ästhetische Briefe, for this reason, finds itself adumbrating an “unexpected science” with little remaining reference to Kant – an account of the human being whose desirable future state, that of morality, can only be made secure by passage through the aesthetic state. A by-product of this argument, and perhaps its chief consequence, is that it finally settles the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns (in favour of the moderns).
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "The quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns"
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Ray, Marcie Lynn. ""Aux armes, camarades!" the Opéra-Comique restages the Querelle des anciens et des modernes, 1697-1745 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1997608701&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Izabel, Tomaz Amorim Fernandes 1988. "Origem negativa na literatura de Franz Kafka : O castelo e outras narrativas." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270010.
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Orientador: Jeanne Marie Gagnebin de BonsDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Este trabalho pretende compreender a especificidade da temporalidade nas narrativas do escritor tcheco Franz Kafka. Para isto, buscamos desenvolver o conceito de origem negativa e aplicá-lo ao romance O castelo (Das Schloß). Entende-se por origem negativa o movimento constante de negação operado pelo texto, em sua construção labiríntica, e pelos protagonistas e outros personagens em todo original, que em Kafka se encontra ausente ou danificado. No percurso do trabalho, narrativas curtas de Kafka serão comparadas a narrativas clássicas de temática semelhante, incluindo textos da Bíblia e da Odisseia. Diferentes abordagens críticas, como as de Walter Benjamin e Max Brod, serão apropriadas e criticadas em busca da formulação do conceito
Abstract: This work aims to comprehend the specificity of temporality in Czech writer Franz Kafka's narratives. In order to accomplish this, we will try to develop the concept of negative origin and apply it to the novel The castle (Das Schloß). By negative origin one understands the constant movement of negation operated, by the text itself through its labyrinthic construction and by the protagonists and other characters, on the presumptions of every original, which in Kafka is either absent or damaged. Throughout this work, short narratives from Kafka will be compared with classical narratives with similar themes, including texts from the Bible and the Odyssey. Different critical approaches, like that of Walter Benjamin and Max Brod, will be appropriated and criticized in search for the formulation of the concept
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Brito, Tarsilla Couto de 1977. "O retorno de Astréia ou Fénelon e a arte de fugir ao tempo." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269931.
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Orientador: Carlos Eduardo Ornelas BerrielTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Quando Fénelon decidiu escrever um espelho de príncipe literário para instruir o neto de Luís XIV nas artes de governar, não imaginou que seu texto fosse causar celeuma, muito menos que se produziria uma fortuna crítica tão vasta e multifacetada. Para além das leituras de caracteres com que o público da época se divertiu descobrindo as figuras reais por detrás das personagens, um dos problemas permanentes para a interpretação de As aventuras de Telêmaco é sua classificação. O livro não se enquadra perfeitamente na narrativa antiga, nem no romance. A despeito da função moralizante-educacional do texto, o personagem Telêmaco ganha autonomia ao ser, nos primeiro livros, narrador de si mesmo. Com isso, temos acesso a uma subjetividade inteiramente nova para um texto que se pretendia pedagógico. O caráter exemplar da epopéia homérica que inspira as aventuras é minado pelas armadilhas criadas pelos sentimentos do próprio herói na missão difícil de despojar-se de si mesmo. Por outro lado, o objetivo de seu texto prende-o às narrativas antigas de caráter moralizante - formar um reicristão. As aventuras de Telêmaco permanecem inscritas em um "tempo sem tempo", em que vemos as transformações sucederem-se umas às outras, sem podermos situá-las numa linha cronológica como no romance. A discussão sobre utopia vem, assim, renovar a discussão do gênero dessas Aventuras. Defendemos que a presença de um "país de nenhum lugar" nessa ficção pedagógica organiza sua estrutura narrativa e orienta seus procedimentos miméticos em função dos espaços visitados. Dividida em duas partes, a presente Tese busca, em um primeiro momento, descrever o texto literário Les aventures de Télémaque de Fénelon. Em termos estritamente literários, tratamos de sua estrutura narrativa, organizada em função de modelos e de antimodelos de governo; de sua linguagem mítico-alegórica que veicula um conteúdo moral e espiritual cristão; e de seu gênero literário. Com uma revisão bibliográfica, esboçamos as razões que fizeram da publicação do Telêmaco um escândalo; e ainda as alterações de sentido e modos de interpretação que o texto sofreu ao longo de uma fortuna crítica de 300 anos. Na segunda parte, nos dedicamos à análise de Salento, o último reino visitado pelo personagem principal, como uma utopia que propõe uma volta no tempo, de modo que afirmamos seu caráter conservador. Nossa proposta de estudo leva em consideração que o Telêmaco de Fénelon não é composto apenas de idéias políticas e religiosas, mas de um conflito entre diferentes concepções de história
Abstract: when Fenelon decided to write a literary mirror for princes to instruct Louis XIV's grandson in the arts of governing, he did not imagine that his text would cause a stir, or that it would produce such a vast and multifaceted critical fortune. Apart from the readings of characters which amused the audience that would try to discover the actual figures behind the characters, one of the perennial problems for the interpretation of The Adventures of Telemachus is its classification. The book does not fit neatly into the ancient narrative, neither into the novel. Despite the moralizing and educational function of the text, the character Telemachus gains autonomy being the narrator of him in the first book. With this, we access an entirely new subjectivity in a text that was intended to be pedagogical. The exemplary feature of the Homeric epic that inspires the adventures is undermined by the traps created by the hero's own feelings while he deals with the difficult task of divesting himself. Moreover, the purpose of the text - to form a Christian king - connects it with the moralizing ancient narratives. The Adventures of Telemachus remains enrolled in a "time out of time" in which we see the transformations following each other, being impossible to place them on a timeline like we do in the novel. The discussion of utopia has thus renewed the discussion about the genre in these adventures. We argue that the presence of a "country of nowhere" in this pedagogical narrative organizes its structure and guides its mimetic procedures according to the spaces visitEditora Divided in two parts, this thesis seeks, at first, to describe Fénelon's literary text, Les aventures de Télémaque. In strictly literary terms, we deal with its narrative structure, organized around government's models and antimodels; its mythical-allegorical language that conveys a moral and spiritual Christian content; and its literary genre. Through a bibliographical review, we outline the reasons that made Telemachus' publication a scandal, and also the changes of meaning and modes of interpretation that the text has suffered over a 300 years old critical fortune. In the second part, we are dedicated to the analysis of Salento, the last kingdom visited by the main character, as a utopia that offers a return on time, so we affirm its conservative feature. Our proposed study takes into consideration that Fénelon's Telemachus consists not only of political and religious ideas, but also of a conflict between different conceptions of history
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Bigonville, Delphine. "Association des idées et intuition: la réponse des architectes anglais à la Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209775.
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Ce travail s’intéresse au problème de la relativisation de l’expression architecturale liée à la remise en question, durant le XVIIe siècle, de l’origine divine et de la valeur des canons proportionnels qui sous-tendent la tradition classique. Emblématique de la Querelle qui opposa Claude Perrault et François Blondel au sein de l’Académie royale de Paris, ce problème recevra une formulation privilégiée dans la tradition théorique anglaise qui se caractérise par la volonté de préserver une forme d’objectivité à l’expression formelle tout en cherchant à y intégrer la valeur subjective de l’usage. A travers l’étude de textes esthétiques et de théories d’architecture produits en Angleterre durant le XVIIIe siècle et le début du XIXe siècle, nous avons cherché à identifier les différentes solutions proposées par les théoriciens pour parvenir à concilier le sujet et l’objet dans la forme architecturale et ainsi aboutir à une expression qui autorise l’appropriation individuelle tout en satisfaisant à l’impératif du consensus.Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie
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Soltani, Seyed Nasser. "La notion de constitution dans l'oeuvre de l'assemblée constituante iranienne de 1906." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX32010/document.
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En 1906 le royaume de Perse connut une révolution constitutionnelle qui lui a donné la première constitution écrite du pays. Durant les années où la révolution se prépare, la société civile ouvre un grand champ d’émergence des concepts modernes du droit public. L’œuvre de l’assemblée constituante de 1906, qui a donné naissance à la constitution et à son complément, en est un exemple par excellence. Dans cette thèse nous allons procéder à l’exploitation de l’œuvre de l’assemblée constituante pour y suivre la genèse et l’évolution des concepts de droit public. Nous allons chercher à travers les concepts principaux du droit public - représentation, égalité civique et égalité devant la loi - la conception qu'avaient les constituants de la Constitution. Nous allons aussi observer la notion de constitution à certains moments décisifs de la révolution, où par exemple les révolutionnaires appelleront le roi au serment pour protéger la constitution. Dans cette thèse nous assisterons aussi à un processus qui par le biais de la redéfinition des anciens concepts de droit public, fait naître les concepts modernes du droit public. Cette thèse en se référant à l’histoire constitutionnelle du pays vise à relever un défi du droit constitutionnel d’aujourd’hui en Iran. Un droit constitutionnel qui, dès sa naissance, ne prend pas au sérieux l’histoire de la discipline. Par cette thèse nous voulons mettre en valeur l’importance et la nécessité des études historiques dans l’enseignement ainsi que dans l’étude du droit constitutionnelIn 1906 the Persian Kingdom witnessed a constitutional revolution which gave it its first written constitution. In the early years of the revolution, civil society opened a great field for the emergence of modern concepts of public law. The work of the Constituent Assembly of 1906, which gave birth to the Constitution and its Supplement, is a unique illustration of this. The present thesis proceeds to explain the work of the Constituent Assembly in order to follow the genesis and evolution of the principles of public law in Iran. Referring to the principal concepts of public law - representation, civic equality and equality before the law - we will attempt to find the particular conception that the constituents of the Constitution had of these concepts. We also explore the notion of constitution at certain key moments of the revolution, where, for example, the revolutionaries called the King to give oath for the safeguard of the Constitution. Further, the thesis explains the process by which modern concepts of public law were given birth through a redefinition of ancient concepts. By referring to constitutional history, the present study aims to expose the challenges to constitutional law in Iran today, a constitutional law which has failed to seriously account for the history of the discipline. The present study therefore aims to show the importance of, and need for, historical studies in the teaching and study of constitutional law in Iran
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Higgins, Tanya C. "The plight of the humanists: a reinterpretation of the battle between the ancients and the moderns." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40643.
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Historians have traditionally viewed the controversy between the ancients and moderns within the narrow scope of the title. However, in the seventeenth century the issue of learning and knowledge was a significant issue in the controversy.
By 1600, the humanists were well established in the universities and applied the classical world view as an ideal for life. The humanists' emphasis on the classic world view along with their compatibility with scientific investigation strengthened their influence in university learning, which lasted until the mid-seventeenth century.
From the 1640s onward, several groups explicitly dcriticized the prominence of humanist ideals in the universities. The sense of these criticisms and the humanists' responses indicate that the issue was not simply ancient against modern, but one world view against another.
During the Civil War and Interregnum, radical puritans censured the use of human learning in the universities and alerted the humanists to future attacks on their domination of learning. After the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, the new philosophy emerged as a strong force in the quest for knowledge. The new philosophers' vitality encouraged them to denounce human learning and propose the subordination of human learning to the ever-advancing new philosophy. As a result, the humanists staunchly defended traditional learning and their standing in the universities.
This thesis re-examines the ancient and modern controversy during the seventeenth century and views it as a continuing debate over which knowledge would best benefit English society. In this way, historians can better understand the motivations for humanists to the reactions of the humanists to the scientists.Master of Arts
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Jaffee, Kay C. "Medea among the ancients and moderns : morality and magic in French musical theatre of the seventeenth century /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : UMI, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40041231c.
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Irwin, Jones. "Reviving an ancient-modern quarrel : a critique of Derrida's reading of Plato and Platoism." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4203/.
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This thesis begins from an analysis of Derrida's specific readings of Plato and Platonism, identifying there a modernist bias, which interprets these metaphysical systems as if they were coextensive with Cartesian rationalism. Against Derrida, I argue for a repositioning of Plato and Platonism in the context of an ancient-modern quarrel. In replacing Descartes's "clarity and distinctness" with a pre-modern emphasis on "faith" (pistis), I am seeking to challenge Derrida's diagnosis of a perplexity or impasse (aporia) which cannot be overcome by philosophy. With specific reference to the Meno and the Phaedrus, one can locate a three-tiered Platonic dialectic beginning with an assertion of knowledge, followed by a necessary deconstruction of this knowledge with, thirdly, a tentative reconstruction of philosophy based on faith rather than knowing. In later chapters, I examine this dialectic as it is developed in the Neo- and Christian- Platonist traditions, particularly through the work of Plotinus, Boethius and Augustine. On my interpretation, deconstruction remains at the second level of the Platonic dialectic, that of impasse and perplexity (one of Derrida's most recent texts is in fact entitled Aporias). Again with reference to an ancient-modern quarrel, it is my contention that Derrida's unstinting stress on the "aporetic" is due to an overemphasis of the Cartesian paradigm. Derrida identifies the exhaustion of what Deeley calls "the classical modern paradigm" with the exhaustion of philosophy per se. But this identification of philosophy with Cartesianism can be seriously challenged through a renewed foregrounding of the premodern philosophical resources which Descartes (and now Derrida) have sought to obscure.
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Perras, Jean-Alexandre. "L'exception exemplaire : une histoire de la notion de génie du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle." Thèse, Paris 8, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/8969.
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Cette thèse montre comment s’est constituée la figure du génie en France au cours des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, en mettant en évidence les paradoxes qui lui ont permis de devenir l’une des notions fondamentales de la modernité. Cette analyse s’articule autour de trois axes principaux. D’abord, il s’agit d’interroger les circonstances de l’invention du terme « génie » dans la langue française, en insistant sur son bagage culturel gréco-latin. La notion de génie apparaît alors comme intimement liée au génie de la langue française et à son histoire. Ensuite, l’analyse
s’intéresse au rôle que la notion de génie joue dans le cadre régulateur de la théorie poétique à la fin du XVIIe siècle. Le génie, qui se définit alors comme une aptitude naturelle à l’exercice d’une régularité normée du faire, n’a cependant de valeur que si cette régularité est transgressée, dépassée. Cette relation fait apparaître le paradoxe social que représente le génie, considéré à la fois comme exceptionnel et exemplaire. Ce paradoxe du génie est ensuite analysé dans le cadre du développement des théories esthétiques au XVIIIe siècle, fondées sur une expérience communautarisante du beau. Cette problématique est étudiée au regard de l’intérêt des philosophes sensualistes pour le problème que constitue le génie, en particulier quant aux mécanismes de l’invention et de la découverte. À l’issue de ce parcours, il apparaît que le génie est à la fois problématique pour les théories qui tentent de le circonscrire et unificateur pour la communauté qu’il permet d’illustrer.This dissertation shows how the figure of the génie was constituted in France over the course of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, by highlighting the paradoxes which allowed such a figure to become the fundamental notion of modernity. The analysis revolves around three main lines. First, the circumstances for the invention of the very term génie in the French language are examined by focusing on the Greco-Latin cultural background it carried along. As a result, the notion appears as intimately connected to the genius of the French language and its history. Secondly, the analysis focuses on the role this notion played within the normative framework of poetic production at the end of the 17th century. Paradoxically, the value of the génie, which was then defined as the natural ability for the exercising of a regulated technique of poesis, was inconceivable without the transgression of such a normative framework. This social paradox underscores the fact that a génie was, at once, considered both as exceptional and exemplary. Finally, this very paradox his analyzed further within the trajectory of the development of aesthetic theories, during the 18th century, which were founded on a community-defining experience of beauty. This specific issue his examined with reference to the interest sensualist philosophers displayed, in particular, for the mechanisms of invention and discovery. The investigation comes to the following essential conclusion: the génie was, at the same time, problematic for the theories that attempted to circumscribe it and unifying for the communities which were illustrated through it.
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Bonaldo, Rodrigo Bragio. "Comemorações e efemérides : ensaio episódico sobre a história de dois paralelos." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/114415.
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“Comemorar efemérides” não é apenas uma expressão legítima utilizada para fazer referência à celebração de uma festa nacional. Desde o final do século XIX, ao menos em língua portuguesa, os dois termos têm sido associados como sinônimos. A presente tese representa um esforço em compreender o desenvolvimento de dois conceitos – comemorações e efemérides – na longa duração. Os encontros e desvios entre as práticas associadas a um e a outro serão pontuados através da seleção de episódios intelectuais, seguidos pelo exame de debates que os tocavam na periferia de suas articulações. Na primeira parte, dedicada às comemorações, montei uma revisão desse bem conhecido tópico de estudos endereçada a uma única hipótese, a saber: o “ofício” comemorativo pode ser entendido como uma forma de comunicação e transmissão geracional de valores. Inspirado pelas fontes, argumento que os eventuais pontos de encontro entre o par de objetos propostos nesta tese são análogos às interrelações entre a “ordem do tempo” e a “ordem da natureza”, entre o tempo dos homens e o movimento das estrelas. Neste drama conceitual, se pudermos assim chamá-lo, faríamos perceber como a superação dos antigos modelos cosmológicos não se esquivou em guardar, para assumir termo caro a Pomian, uma lógica cronosófica. Se eu for bem sucedido, esse argumento deverá se expressar na segunda parte. As efemérides, como tábuas do movimento dos corpos celestes, vieram sofrer uma lenta transição rumo ao registro dos feitos humanos. Bebendo em fontes antigas e nas práticas de emulação, personagens bem conhecidos da primeira modernidade associaram o termo primeiro aos diários pessoais, depois ao jornalismo e, nos séculos seguintes, à história literária, religiosa e política. Na França, as éphémérides emergem da revolução já como um subgênero historiográfico. No Brasil da segunda metade do século XIX, listas de efemérides encontram lugar comum junto às comemorações dentro dos debates do IHGB. É no horizonte do projeto de nação que busco observar a união dos paralelos. Esse horizonte – como um ponto de chegada – vai aparecer ao final de cada secção da tese, observado a partir da celebração do quadricentenário da descoberta de Cabral.“Comemorar efemérides” is a Portuguese phrase that despite its academic ring, is often used in the mainstream press. It translates roughly as 'the commemoration of an auspicious occasion’ and is used in reference to the public marking of nationally significant events. By the end of the nineteenth century, the two terms of this phrase came to be synonymous in Portuguese. This thesis represents an effort to understand the development of these two terms – efemérides and comemorações – over the longue durée. The long-term similarities in the practical and public uses of these terms are explored by tracing their discursive deployments and examining the debates that surrounded such public uses. The first section, dedicated to commemorations, frames the analysis of this much discussed topic with the following hypothesis: the act of commemoration is a form of moral utterance between generations; it is the rehearsal and transmission of collective values. Drawing on historical sources, I argue that the eventual points of contact between these terms can be seen as analogs to the discursive exchange and conflict between the classical and peripatetic notions of the “order of time” and the “order of nature”. In this conceptual drama, one sees how the sublation of old cosmological perspectives nevertheless still contains what I shall call – following Pomian – a chronosophy. This analysis leads to the second part of the thesis. Efemérides, originally tables of the movements of the celestial bodies – also known as almanacs – underwent a slow transition from the celestial to the earthly, from the charting of the stars to the recording of human deeds. Drawing on classical texts, well-informed readers of early modernity would have associated those writings in the first instance with diaries, then with journalism and, in the following centuries, with political history. Emerging from the French Revolution as a historiographical subgenre, lists of Efemérides shared a common function with commemorations as nation-building practices that described the horizon of a project to create national identity. This horizon, as a meeting point of moral utterance and political project is explored at the end of both sections of the thesis, as it is observed in the quadricentenial celebration of Cabral’s Discovery of Brazil. It is at this horizon that the parallel developments of comemorações and efemérides promise to meet.
Books on the topic "The quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns"
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Jonathan, Swift. The battle of the books. Richmond, Surrey, U.K: Oneworld Classics, 2012.
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Force, James E. "Newton, the “Ancients,” and the “Moderns”." In Newton and Religion, 237–57. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2426-5_12.
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Karagiannis, Nathalie, and Peter Wagner. "The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients." In The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy, 371–88. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118561768.ch16.
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Atkins, G. Douglas. "Introduction—The Spider and the Bee: Ancients vs. Moderns and The Battle of the Books." In Swift's Satires on Modernism, 1–7. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137311047_1.
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Clark, Frederic. "The Perennial Quarrel." In The First Pagan Historian, 305–36. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190492304.003.0008.
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The Conclusion begins by bringing the story of Dares up to the decades around 1700. It considers both changes and continuities in Dares’ afterlife over the course of the preceding millennium. It then examines the neglected role of the Destruction of Troy in two developments long linked to the eighteenth century: namely, the origins of modern professionalized classical scholarship and the advent of a sense of “disenchantment” concerning the truth-value of ancient texts and traditions. It places Dares within the so-called “quarrel of the ancients and the moderns” (querelle des anciens et des modernes) and examines the commentary on the Destruction of Troy composed by the French classical scholar Anne Dacier (a partisan of the “ancients” who later defended Homer against “modern” critiques). It also discusses invocations of Dares by figures including Jean Mabillon, Giambattista Vico, and Thomas Jefferson. The Conclusion ends with broader reflections on what Dares’ reception history can tell us about the paradoxes inherent in modern approaches to antiquity.
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"The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns." In A History of Modern French Literature, 269–90. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400885046-015.
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NORMAN, LARRY F. "The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns:." In A History of Modern French Literature, 269–90. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc77kx7.17.
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Riley, Patrick. "Rousseau, Fénelon, and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns." In The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau, 78–93. Cambridge University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521572651.004.
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"7. Pope and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns." In The Battle of the Books, 218–44. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9781501727641-010.
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Patrick, Riley. "Rousseau, Fénelon, and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns." In Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity, 145–60. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315128771-10.
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"7. Edward Gibbon and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns." In Humanism and History, 178–89. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9781501746000-008.
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Fang, Hongbin, Xiang Yu, and Li Cheng. "Exploiting Origami Shape Reconfiguration in Noise Control Applications." In ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-98368.
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Abstract Noise has been recognized as a serious health hazard in modern society. Among various noise reduction ways, control of the transmission path from the source to the receiver is a feasible option for both existing and new facilities. More specifically, acoustic barriers and reactive or dissipative mufflers are two characteristic measures. The performance of a noise barrier or a muffler always depends on geometries. For the former, the key geometry is the barrier height; for the latter, the key geometries are the shape and size of the expansion chamber or resonance tubes. Conventional barriers and mufflers are scarcely capable of altering their key geometries, and hence, their performance based on requirements, nor possessing adequate versatility to adapt to variable noise conditions. In this research, we show that origami, the ancient art of paper folding, provides abundant inspiration for developing reconfigurable noise controlling devices, exemplified by Miura-ori noise barrier, modular-origami silencer, Miura-ori quarter-wavelength tube, and origami-ball expansion chamber. We show that the shape and characteristic geometries of these devices can be significantly altered via folding with a single degree of freedom, which can be exploited for tuning their attenuation performances. Then the modular-origami silencer is employed to exemplify the folding-induced advantages. Finite element studies reveal that folding could reconfigure the silencer such that the sound attenuation bandwidth can be effectively tuned. In addition, by incorporating multiple origami layers in a silencer and by programming their geometries, prescribed noise control requirement can be achieved. Overall, with the modular-origami silencer as a proof-of-concept example, we demonstrate that origami could inspire new innovation in designing noise control devices with the long-desired shape re-configurability and acoustic tunability.