Transforming Topoi (eBook)

Prof. Dr. Andrew James Johnston lehrt Englische Philologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Literatur des Mittelalters und der Renaissance an der Freien Universität Berlin.

Title Page 4
Copyright 5
Table of Contents 6
Body 8
Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann: Introduction: The Exigencies and Impositions of Tradition 10
The Exigencies of the Self-Evident, and Traditions as an Arsenal of Symbolic Politics 10
Peter-André Alt: Traditions and the Dynamics of Change: Preliminary Thoughts on a Key Issue in Early Modern Studies 16
Phillip H. Stump: Ideas of Reform and Tradition at the Late Medieval Reform Councils 42
I. Gerhart Ladner and the Analysis of Reform 43
II. Conciliar Reform 45
III. Secular Parallels 47
IV. Reform and Tradition in Harmony 50
V. The Central Topos: Reform in Head and Members 52
VI. Reform in Dissonance and Dialogue with Tradition 54
Conclusion 58
Margitta Rouse: (Un)?Veiling the Veil: Trojan Temporalities, Chaucerian Ekphrasis and Literary Innovation in Shakespeare’s Rape of Lucrece 60
I. Renewing Lucrece as a ?Trojan' Figure 62
II. Rhetoric Versus Realism, or, the Heartless Early Critic 69
III. ?Just slightly askew': Trojan Ekphrasis, Classical, Medieval and Early Modern 72
Maria Muccillo: Philosophy and Orthodoxy: Valuation and Devaluation of the Platonic Tradition in the Late Renaissance 90
Anna Laura Puliafito: The Platonic Tradition and its Fates: Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno 120
Katharina Krause: Indomptable Valeur: Le Grand Condé and the End of the Hero in Art 134
Gideon Stiening: Natural Sociability? The Aristotelian Tradition as a Challenge to Modern Natural Law as Reflected in European Enlightenment Literature: Jonathan Swift – Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Johann Karl Wezel 148
Introduction 148
I. Aristotelianism versus Contractualism 151
II. Gulliver's Travels (1726): Inventing Political Tradition 156
III. La Nouvelle Héloxse (1761): Demolishing Tradition 161
IV. Belphegor (1776): Trumping Tradition 166
Conclusion: Political Traditions as Impositions 168
Stephen Gaukroger: The Enlightenment Historicization of Religion and Philosophy: Fontenelle and Hume 170
The Varieties of Understanding 178
Bernd Roling: From Centaur to Human: Mythological Tradition in the Works of the French Evolutionists 188
Introduction: Encountering and Explaining Mermaids and Satyrs in the Seventeenth Century 188
I. A Prelude to Evolutionism: Satyrs, Mermaids and Tailed Men as Intermediary Creatures 191
II. Benoît Maillet and his Successors: Mermaids and Satyrs as Part of Evolution 195
II.1. Benoît Maillet 196
II.2. James Burnett, Lord Monboddo 199
II.3. Jean-Baptiste Robinet 201
II.4. Jean-Baptiste Izouard Delisle de Sales 203
III. The Classification of Species and the End of French Transformationism 204
Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann: The Exigencies, Constructions and Inescapabilities of Tradition: To What Extent Can Lebenswelten Be ?Invented'? 210
I. Husserl's Lebenswelt 210
II. Lebenswelt, Temporality and Historicity 212
II.1 Event 213
II.2 Topoi 215
II.3 Singularity 216
II.4 Intentionality 216
II.5 Schemata of Expectation 217
II.6 Historiography 219
III. Hobsbawm's Invention of Tradition 220
Conclusion: Topoi and Lebenswelt 221
About the Editors and Contributors 224
Index 230