Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought: From Antiquity to the Reformation - Hardcover

The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought. From Antiquity to the Reformation.

Cloth with dustjacket. Zustand: Gut. X, 381 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag weist Randläsuren auf, außerdem berieben und am Buchrücken ausgeblichen, Einband auch leicht bestoßen, sonst guter Zustand und innen sauber / dust jacket has edgewear, also rubbed and faded at the spine, cover slightly scuffed, otherwise good condition and clean inside. - The idea that history repeats itself has a long and intriguing history. This volume is concerned with the period of time in the Western tradition when its expressions were most numerous and fervent. The author shows that this idea should not be confined to its cyclical version, for such notions as reenactment, retribution, and renaissance also belong under the wide umbrella of "recurrence. He argues, moreover, that not only the Greco-Roman but also the biblical tradition contributed to the history of this idea. The old contrast between Judeo-Christian linear views of history and Greco-Roman cyclical views is brought into question. Beginning with Polybius, Trompf examines the manifold forms of recurrence thinking in Greek and Roman historiography, then turns his attention to biblical views of historical change, arguing that in Luke-Acts and in earlier Jewish writings an interest in the idea of history repeating itself was clearly demonstrated. Jewish and early Christian writers initiated and foreshadowed an extensive synthesizing of recur- rence notions and models from both traditions, although the syntheses could vary with the context and dogmatic considerations. The Renaissance and Reformatic intertwine classical and biblical notions of recurrence most closely, yet even in the sixteenth century some ideas distinct to each tradition, such as the Polybian conception of a "cycle of governments and the biblic notion of the "reenactment of significant events, were revived in stark separation from each other. The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought deals with a continuing but not always fruitful "dialogue between the two great traditions of Western thought, a dialogue that did not stop short in the days of Machiavelli, but has been carried on to the present day. This study is the first half of a long story to be continued in a second volume on the idea of historical recurrence from Giambattista Vico to Arnold Toynbee. / Contents ABBREVIATIONS PREFACE INTRODUCTION 1 THE POLYBIAN ANACYCLOSIS OR CYCLE OF GOVERNMENTS A. Polybius as a theorist of historical rather than cosmological recurrence, 6 B. The Polybian anthropology, 15 The two-staged anthropology and its background, 16 The anthropology and the three-stationed biological principle, 22 c. The anacyclic zigzag, 25 d. The Anacyclosis viewed synoptically and the importance of Plato, 37 e. The application of the Anacyclosis, 45 The problem of mixed constitutions, 45 The constitutional development of Rome, 49 2 POLYBIUS AND THE ELEMENTARY MODELS OF HISTORICAL RECURRENCE IN THE CLASSICAL TRADITION A. Cycles and alternation as paradigms of recurrence, 61 Fortunes wheel, 62 i. General, 62 ii. Polybius, 63 The biological principle, 66 i. General, 66 ii. Polybius, 69 Age theory and the rise and fall of empires, 75 i. General, 75 ii. Polybius, 78 B. Reciprocal paradigms of recurrence, 84 The rectified mean, 85 i. General, 85 ii. Polybius, 88 Principles of retribution, 93 i. General, 93 ii. Polybius: key lines of approach, 97 iii. Polybius on the special case of Rome, 101 c. Other models of historical recurrence, 106 Conventional metabole theory, 106 i. General, 106 ii. Polybius, 107 The appeal to the permanent traits of human nature, 110 Addendum: Special cases of recurrence, 112 3 NOTIONS OF HISTORICAL RECURRENCE IN LUKE AND THE BIBLICAL TRADITION A. Luke-Acts and the reenactment of significant events, 121 Cent. Artikel-Nr. 1187136

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