Classical Influences on Western Thought A.D. 1650-1870 [Paperback]

This volume examines the progress of classical studies to the general history of ideas from 1650 to 1870.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.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.The third international conference on classical influences took place in Cambridge in 1977 under the title 'Classical Influences in Western Education, Philosophy and Social Theory'. Dr Bolgar has here collected and edited the proceedings and produced a volume which attempts to relate the progress of classical studies to the general history of ideas from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. The book should be of interest to specialists in classical studies, to students of the literature of the period, and to students of eighteenth-century French, Italian and American history.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 herm?tique 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. DielÓr