Central European Pasts - Old and New in the Intellectual Culture of Habsburg Europe, 1700-1750 (Hardcover)

Anyone wishing to look beyond the paradigm of Western progress needs to understand how it came into being. In the intellectual culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, the competitive comparison of Ancients and Moderns and their respective relations to civilization and barbarism constituted one of the formative discourses. Yet alternative ideas of time and historicity are encountered not only in cultural contexts outside of Europe but also in the largely forgotten professional knowledge of the Old World: Thomism, Peripatetism, moderate forms of criticism, political theory, and legal practice. This book introduces a broad panorama of such intellectual cultures in Central Europe. It situates theological, historical, and philosophical scholarship in its institutional and epistemological environments: the Church, the Holy Roman Empire, and the emerging Habsburg Monarchy. In doing so, it identifies struggles over competing pasts - Christian, ethnic, legal - as the core of those domains' intellectual development.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History
Release date:	July 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Ines Peper • Thomas Wallnig
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	668
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-064911-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	3-11-064911-X
Barcode:	9783110649116

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