Discourses of Decline
Essays on Republicanism in Honor of Wyger R.E. Velema
Published on 16. December 2021
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-90-04-43542-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. While scholarship on republicanism thrives, the idea of decline, which has been prominent in republican theory since antiquity, has received relatively little attention. The essays in this volume take a broad cultural perspective and study a wide variety of authors and (con)texts to situate decline among the key concepts in the history of republicanism. Most contributions focus on the Dutch Republic during the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions, the area of expertise of Wyger Velema, to whom this volume is dedicated. Other case studies include early modern Spain and Venice, the German Enlightenment, and the Weimar Republic.
Contributors are: Remieg Aerts, Hans Erich Boedeker, Wiep van Bunge, Lisa Kattenberg, Wessel Krul, Matthijs Lok, Alessandro Metlica, Ida Nijenhuis, Elea de la Porte, Jan Rotmans, Niek van Sas, Freya Sierhuis, and Lina Weber.
Contributors are: Remieg Aerts, Hans Erich Boedeker, Wiep van Bunge, Lisa Kattenberg, Wessel Krul, Matthijs Lok, Alessandro Metlica, Ida Nijenhuis, Elea de la Porte, Jan Rotmans, Niek van Sas, Freya Sierhuis, and Lina Weber.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
526 gr
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978-90-04-43542-1 (9789004435421)
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Joris Oddens, Ph.D. (2012), University of Amsterdam, is a senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a historian of Dutch political culture. His interests include the age of revolutions and the history of petitioning.
Mart Rutjes, Ph.D. (2012), University of Amsterdam, is assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on modern Dutch political history, and especially on the Dutch Age of Revolution.
Arthur Weststeijn, Ph.D. (2010), European University Institute, is research fellow at the University of Padua. He has published widely on Dutch, Spanish, and Italian history, including, together with Wyger Velema, Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination (Brill, 2017).
Mart Rutjes, Ph.D. (2012), University of Amsterdam, is assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on modern Dutch political history, and especially on the Dutch Age of Revolution.
Arthur Weststeijn, Ph.D. (2010), European University Institute, is research fellow at the University of Padua. He has published widely on Dutch, Spanish, and Italian history, including, together with Wyger Velema, Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination (Brill, 2017).
Content
Preface
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Republican Decline in Context
?Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes, and Arthur Weststeijn
2 Trends and Transitions in Dutch Commercial Republicanism, 1600-1800
?Ida Nijenhuis
3 Becoming Spinoza: On the Failure of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
?Wiep van Bunge
4 Republicanism and Slavery in Dutch Intellectual Culture, 1600-1800
?Freya Sierhuis
5 The Problem of National Debt in Dutch Republican Thought: Joan Derk van der Capellen and Elie Luzac
?Lina Weber
6 Polite Batavians: The Uses of the Past in Late-Eighteenth-Century Dutch Spectators
?Elea de la Porte
7 Vulnerable Virtue: The Enlightened Pessimism of Dutch Revolutionaries at the End of the Eighteenth Century
?Jan Rotmans
8 A Republican Patriot on His Own Pedestal: Joan Hendrik Swildens (1746-1809)
?Niek van Sas
9 The Demise of Dutch Republicanism in the Nineteenth Century
?Remieg Aerts
10 Braving the Batavians: Classical Models and Countering Rebellion in the Spanish Empire
?Lisa Kattenberg
11 Reshaping the Republican Ritual: The Entry of the Procurators of St Mark in Early Modern Venice
?Alessandro Metlica
12 Greek Political Models in the German Enlightenment Press
?Hans Erich Boedeker
13 The European Republic from the Enlightenment to the Counter-Revolution
?Matthijs Lok
14 Conservatism, Republicanism, and Romanticism: Thomas Mann's "Conversion" to Democracy in 1922
?Wessel Krul
Index
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Republican Decline in Context
?Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes, and Arthur Weststeijn
2 Trends and Transitions in Dutch Commercial Republicanism, 1600-1800
?Ida Nijenhuis
3 Becoming Spinoza: On the Failure of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
?Wiep van Bunge
4 Republicanism and Slavery in Dutch Intellectual Culture, 1600-1800
?Freya Sierhuis
5 The Problem of National Debt in Dutch Republican Thought: Joan Derk van der Capellen and Elie Luzac
?Lina Weber
6 Polite Batavians: The Uses of the Past in Late-Eighteenth-Century Dutch Spectators
?Elea de la Porte
7 Vulnerable Virtue: The Enlightened Pessimism of Dutch Revolutionaries at the End of the Eighteenth Century
?Jan Rotmans
8 A Republican Patriot on His Own Pedestal: Joan Hendrik Swildens (1746-1809)
?Niek van Sas
9 The Demise of Dutch Republicanism in the Nineteenth Century
?Remieg Aerts
10 Braving the Batavians: Classical Models and Countering Rebellion in the Spanish Empire
?Lisa Kattenberg
11 Reshaping the Republican Ritual: The Entry of the Procurators of St Mark in Early Modern Venice
?Alessandro Metlica
12 Greek Political Models in the German Enlightenment Press
?Hans Erich Boedeker
13 The European Republic from the Enlightenment to the Counter-Revolution
?Matthijs Lok
14 Conservatism, Republicanism, and Romanticism: Thomas Mann's "Conversion" to Democracy in 1922
?Wessel Krul
Index