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Ancients against Moderns (Paperback, New edition)
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As the end of the century approaches, many predict our fin de
siecle will mirror the nineteenth-century decline into decadence.
But a better model for the 1990s is to be found, according to Joan
DeJean, in the culture wars of France in the 1690s--the time of a
battle of the books known as the Quarrel between the Ancients and
the Moderns.
DeJean brilliantly reassesses our current culture wars from the
perspective of that earlier fin de siecle (the first to think of
itself as such), and rereads the seventeenth-century Quarrel from
the vantage of our own warring "ancients" and "moderns." In so
doing, DeJean shows that a fin de siecle taking place in the shadow
of culture wars can be more a source of constructive cultural
revolution than of apocalyptic gloom and doom. Just as the first
fin de siecle's battle of the books served as the spark that set
off the Enlightenment, introducing radically new sexual and social
politics that laid the groundwork for modernity, so can our current
culture wars result in radical, liberating changes--if we take an
active stand against our own "ancients" who seek to stifle such
reforms.
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