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Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history. Using theories of circulation and other concepts of exchange, transfer and movement, the authors analyze the development and differentiation of European secular and religious drama, within the disciplinary framework of comparative literature and the history of literature and concepts. Within this frame, aspects of major interest are the relationship between tradition and innovation, the status of genre, the proportion of autonomous and heteronomous creational dispositions within the artefacts or genres they belong to, as well as strategies of functionalization in the context of a given part of the cultural net. Contributions cover a broad range of topics, including poetics of Early Modern Drama; political, institutional and social practices; history of themes and motifs (Stoffgeschichte); history of genres/cross-fertilization between genres; textual traditions and distribution of texts; questions of originality and authorship; theories of circulation and net structures in Drama Studies.

The arts --- Comparative Literature. --- Drama. --- Early Modern Europe. --- History of Ideas.

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Redécouvrir Montesquieu, en son temps et dans le temps long de l’histoire : les œuvres clés du siècle des Lumières, Lettres persanes, L’Esprit des lois, Considérations sur les Romains, prennent tout leur sens si l’on prend en compte à la fois leur dimension littéraire, politique, philosophique, historique, juridique. Des temps forts de l’histoire, comme la découverte des Indes par Alexandre, le voyage africain d’Hannon ou l’invasion de l’Europe par les Huns, la prise de pouvoir par Auguste et le long règne de Justinien, révèlent la puissance de l’esprit humain et la faiblesse des sociétés soumises au pouvoir d’un seul. L’histoire, ancienne ou récente, devient le champ d’action privilégié de la pensée politique, tout en révélant la place infime de l’individu à l’échelle des siècles et des nations. À travers ce monde sans héros, régi par des causes générales et profondes, apparaissent les qualités maîtresses d’un écrivain philosophe : la liberté de l’esprit et l’acuité du regard, révélées par la succession des lectures, parfois contradictoires, qui en ont été données. Rediscovering Montesquieu in his time and throughout history: the key works of the Enlightenment, Persian Letters, Considerations on the Romans, The Spirit of Law take on their full meaning if one takes into account their literary, political, historical and legal dimensions. Major historical events, such as Alexander the Great’s discovery of the Indies, Hanno the Navigator’s voyage around Africa or the invasion of Europe by the Huns, Augustus’ seizure of power and the long reign of Justinian, reveal the power of the human spirit and the weakness of societies subjected to the power of a single person. History, ancient or recent, becomes the preferred sphere of action for political thought and reveals the insignificance of the individual throughout centuries and across nations. Through this world without heroes, governed by deep-rooted, general matters, the dominant qualities of a philosophical writer…

Philosophy --- Literature (General) --- Montesquieu --- Lumières --- littérature --- philosophie --- histoire des idées --- Enlightenment --- literature --- philosophy --- history of ideas

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Gegenstand des Bandes ist die Geschichte des Imaginationsbegriffes in der französischen Aufklärung.Der Band rekonstruiert ausgehend von einer synthetisierenden Übersicht in insgesamt 27 Dossiers (Einleitungen und Textausschnitte) die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Imaginationsbegriffs von Malebranches ‚Recherche de la vérité‘ (1674) und seinen frühaufklärerischen Rezeptionen bis hin zu frühromantischen Positionen. Dabei liegt ein besonderes Augenmerk auf der Einbettung des Konzepts in unterschiedliche erkenntnistheoretische Kontexte (Cartesianismus, Sensualismus, Materialismus). Zudem werden verschiedene Wissensfelder und Disziplinen (Erkenntnistheorie, Vermögenslehren, Medizin, Anthropologie, Poetik) insofern berücksichtigt, als sie ihrerseits den Imaginationsbegriff operationalisieren und ihn über sehr unterschiedliche Umwege zu einem zentralen Instrument des modernen Möglichkeitsdenkens machen.Der Band bietet erstmalig eine zugleich ideen- und kulturgeschichtliche Analyse der Konzeptualisierung des Begriffs im Verlaufe des französischen 18. Jahrhunderts. This volume seeks to reconstruct the developmental history of imagination in the French Enlightenment era. In chronological order, it presents 27 dossiers that document the notion of imagination, compiled from elements of the 17th-century theory of knowledge and differentiated according to discipline.

Philosophy, French --- Imagination (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- History --- Enlightenment. --- History of Ideas (France). --- Imagination.

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Ideas In Time deals extensively with the history of ideas. The aims of the book are: to provide a coherent theoretical account of the ill-defined field known as ‘the history of ideas’; to emphasise the longue durée or long view in intellectual and cultural history; to develop a reconfigured history of ideas, attentive both to the endurance of certain ideas and beliefs, and to breaks and shifts in meaning over time; and to support this general ambition with studies of specific ideas over long durations, namely: the ideas of progress, democracy, zero, charisma, the Olympic games, and the idea of the West. Ideas in Time emphasises both historical continuity and discontinuity, drawing on both perspectives in its reconstruction of the history of ideas. This theoretical model entails the possibility of tracing the history of certain ideas from their ancient origins to their present expression, while acknowledging alterations in meaning determined by changing social and cultural contexts.

E-books --- History --- Political Science --- democracy --- history of ideas --- beliefs --- progress --- alterations --- cultural contexts

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The late 18th century is characterized by two crucial events: the rise of Goethe as a dominating literary figure and the emergence of Kant's critical philosophy and its productive reception not only in the philosophical but also literary discourse of the time. While the Tübingen School concreatively adopted Kant's philosophy as a system of ideas, they also critically responded to its intellectualising impulse by positing the equiprimordiality of world and Self, of art and reason. Adhering to the self-critical impulse of Kant's philosophy by positing the equiprimordiality of both the empirical world and the intelligible subject, and trying to overcome the "chorismos" between them through the classicist model of aesthetic Bildung, they argued for the co-extensiveness of the reality of both philosophy and literature. The authors investigate how the latent antagonism between these divergent traditions of the so-called Goethezeit creates the thrust behind the intellectual firework of divergent literary and philosophical discourses from around 1800, throughout the 19th and into the 20th century.

Philosophy, German. --- German Idealism. --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. --- History of Ideas. --- Intellectual History.