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- catalog abstract "For many centuries, Julius Caesar was a name that evoked strong feelings among educated people. Some of these responses were complimentary, but others came from the point of view of "political republicanism"--Which envisaged Caesar as a historical symbol for some of the most dangerous tendencies a polity could experience. Caesar represented everything that republicans detested - corruption, demagogy, usurpation - and as such, provided an anti-model against which genuine political virtue could be measured. Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World examines the reception of Caesar in republican thought until the late eighteenth century and his transformation in the nineteenth, when he enjoyed a major rehabilitation in the literary culture and historiography of the day. In the nineteenth century, Caesar enjoyed a major rehabilitation; from being a pariah, he was elevated in the writings of people like Byron, De Quincey, Mommsen, Froude, and Nietzsche to the greatest statesman of his age. Simultaneously, Caesar's name continued to function as a term of polemic in the emergence of a new debate on what came to be called "Caesarism." While the metamorphosis of Caesar's reputation is studied here as a process in its own right, it is also meant to highlight the increasing enfeeblement of the republican tradition. The transformation of Caesar's image is a sure sign of changes within the wider present-day political culture and evidence of the emergence of new problems and challenges. This volume is an important study that will be of value to sociologists, political theorists, and historians.".
- catalog contributor b10284118.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Caesar Within the Republican Imagination -- The Advent of Caesarism -- Bismarck and the Crisis of German Politics: Max Weber and His Contemporaries I -- From German Politics to Universal Sociology: Max Weber and His Contemporaries II -- Caesarism in Twentieth-Century Political and Sociological Thought.".
- catalog description "For many centuries, Julius Caesar was a name that evoked strong feelings among educated people. Some of these responses were complimentary, but others came from the point of view of "political republicanism"--Which envisaged Caesar as a historical symbol for some of the most dangerous tendencies a polity could experience. Caesar represented everything that republicans detested - corruption, demagogy, usurpation - and as such, provided an anti-model against which genuine political virtue could be measured. Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World examines the reception of Caesar in republican thought until the late eighteenth century and his transformation in the nineteenth, when he enjoyed a major rehabilitation in the literary culture and historiography of the day. In the nineteenth century, Caesar enjoyed a major rehabilitation; from being a pariah, he was elevated in the writings of people like Byron, De Quincey, Mommsen, Froude, and Nietzsche to the greatest statesman of his age. Simultaneously, Caesar's name continued to function as a term of polemic in the emergence of a new debate on what came to be called "Caesarism." While the metamorphosis of Caesar's reputation is studied here as a process in its own right, it is also meant to highlight the increasing enfeeblement of the republican tradition. The transformation of Caesar's image is a sure sign of changes within the wider present-day political culture and evidence of the emergence of new problems and challenges. This volume is an important study that will be of value to sociologists, political theorists, and historians.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-349) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 359 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1560003049 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers,".
- catalog subject "321.9 21".
- catalog subject "Caesarism History.".
- catalog subject "JA81 .B243 1997".
- catalog subject "Political science History.".
- catalog subject "Republicanism History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Caesar Within the Republican Imagination -- The Advent of Caesarism -- Bismarck and the Crisis of German Politics: Max Weber and His Contemporaries I -- From German Politics to Universal Sociology: Max Weber and His Contemporaries II -- Caesarism in Twentieth-Century Political and Sociological Thought.".
- catalog title "Caesar and the fading of the Roman world : a study in Republicanism and Caesarism / Peter Baehr.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".