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creators_name: Harth, Dietrich
title: Über die Geburt der Antike aus dem Geist der Moderne

subjects: ddc-800
subjects: ddc-930
divisions: i-90100
note: Nach einem Vortrag gehalten auf der 2. Tagung der International Society for the Classical Tradition, Tübingen, 13.–16. August 1992.
abstract: To recall the shaping of “antiquity” as a leading symbolic concept of European culture seems to be justified by the actual debate about the fault lines between modernity and postmodernity and emerging cultural fundamentalisms. In 17th century France the “Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes” fostered not only the consciousness of historical distance between now and then but brought forth the image of an enhanced antiquity, a “new Rome”. The resulting hegemony of the “esprit classique” in central Europe provoked the opposition of intellectuals in 18th century Germany searching for national cultural identity. In the dramatic course of this search for self-constitution Greek antiquity was elaborated as a symbolic token (“reine Griechheit”) for a cultural pattern that was deemed to overthrow and even transcend universally the impact of French culture. The construction of antiquity as a cognitive image (Denkbild) with aesthetic features can be considered as a response to the question if the antagonistic structure of modern life could be overcome by a utopian idea restricted, however, to a relativistic, i.e. national concept of classical studies.
date: 1994
publisher: Springer
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00019251
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02679082
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-9
schriftenreihe_order: 068
ppn_swb: 151485242X
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-192514
language: ger
bibsort: HARTHDIETRUBERDIEGEB1994
full_text_status: public
publication: International journal of the classical tradition; IJCT ; the official journal of the International Society for the Classical Tradition
volume: 1
number: 1
place_of_pub: Dordrecht
pagerange: 89-106
issn: 1073-0508
citation:   Harth, Dietrich  (1994) Über die Geburt der Antike aus dem Geist der Moderne.  International journal of the classical tradition; IJCT ; the official journal of the International Society for the Classical Tradition, 1 (1).  pp. 89-106.  ISSN 1073-0508     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19251/1/Harth_Ueber_die_Geburt_der_Antike_aus_dem_Geist_der_Moderne.pdf