Out of Arcadia
Subtitle: classics and politics in Germany in the age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz
By: edited by Ingo Gildenhard and Martin Ruehl.
Contributors: Gildenhard, Ingo, 1970-; Ruehl, Martin.; University of London. Institute of Classical Studies.
Series: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies -- 79
Publisher: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Institute of Classical Studies
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Burckhardt, Jacob, -- 1818-1897 -- Views on Classical civilization.; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900 -- Views on Classical civilization.; Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von, -- 1848-1931 -- Views on Classical civilization.; Civilization, Classical.; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Germany -- Civilization -- Greek influences.
Description: For centuries the glories of ancient Greece were upheld as the embodiment of cultural and political greatness although by the later 19th century 'cultural pessimism and elitism' had begun to infest classical research with investigations into the darker sides of the ancients. These revised papers from a conference held in Princeton in 1999 examine the transformations that took place in German classical scholarship during the 18th and 19th centuries and look in particular at three figures that held a pivotal role in major debates of the time - Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz. Together the contributors study 'the gradual erosion of the neohumanist, emancipatory legacy of philhellenism in the Wilhelmine era and the increasing susceptibility of classical scholars to iliberal, nationalist and - especially after World War I - racist beliefs'
Notes: Substantially revised papers from a conference held at Princeton University, April 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.