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Reconstructing Camelot
This book examines French Romantic medievalism through one of its many manifestations, the treatment of the Arthurian legends. Examining works of historiography and literary history, as well as literary texts proper, it assesses the place of the Arthurian material in French culture in the period up to 1860, the date of publication of Edgar Quinet's Merlin l'enchanteur. In so doing, it reveals key features of French Romanticism and traces the origins of some of the problems and contradictions which still affect the practice of medieval studies, the study of medieval literature, and the representation of the Middle Ages. The author argues that the depiction of Arthurian legends in French Roman...
After Kant
Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedom In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, about what is involved in comparing individual human lives to the whole of human history. How can we compare them, or understand the results of the comparison? Kant’s question injected a new, future-oriented dimension into existing discussions of prevailing norms, challenging their orientation toward the past. This reversal made Kant’s question a bridge between three successive sets of arguments: between the supporters of the an...
Pornographic Archaeology
In Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation, Zrinka Stahuljak explores the connections and fissures between the history of sexuality, nineteenth-century views of the Middle Ages, and the conceptualization of modern France. This cultural history uncovers the determinant role that the sexuality of the Middle Ages played in nineteenth-century French identity. Stahuljak's provocative study of sex, blood, race, and love in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical and historical literature demonstrates how French medicine's obsession with the medieval past helped to define European sexuality, race, public health policy, marriage, family, and th...
French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day
This collection of essays explores an unjustly neglected tradition that is now experiencing a remarkable renaissance: French political liberalism.
Architecture and the Historical Imagination
Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He published some of the most influential texts in the history of modern architecture such as the Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle and Entretiens sur l’architecture, but also studies on warfare, geology and racial history. Martin Bressani expertly traces Viollet-le-Duc’s complex intellectual development, mapping the attitudes he adopted toward the past, showing how restoration, in all its layered meaning, shaped his outlook. Through his life journey, we follow the route by which the technological subject was born out of nineteenth-century historicism.
The Cambridge Companion to Constant
Benjamin Constant is widely regarded as a founding father of modern liberalism. This book presents a collection of interpretive essays on the major aspects of his life and work by a panel of international scholars.
A Romantic Historiosophy
This intellectual history study establishes Ballanche as an important figure in the intellectual life of early nineteenth-century France, and demonstrates how his religio-social project effected a critical step in the historical-mindedness of the Romantic period.
La pensée d'Edgar Quinet : étude sur la formation de ses idées, avec essais de jeunesse et documents inédits
Edgar Quinet (1803 – 1875) : poète ? historien ? philosophe ? homme politique ? Certes, mais aussi le prestigieux maître à penser de plusieurs générations, l'inspirateur respecté de la IIIe République et, surtout, le représentant typique d'un romantisme européen tout imprégné de science allemande. En lui, se résume le conflit du monde occidental, qui oppose passion et spiritualité. D'ascendance bressane et genevoise, farouche républicain, il connaît l'exil en Belgique et en Suisse romande. La résistance à toute forme d'oppression, la quête d'une liberté et d'un bonheur universels, voilà l'ambition majeure de son projet et l'actualité de son exemple. Cet esprit dynamiqu...
