Discourses of Decline : : Essays on Republicanism in Honor of Wyger R. E. Velema / / Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes, and Arthur Weststeijn.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Political Thought Series ; Volume 17
• VerfasserIn: Oddens, Joris,; Rutjes, Mart, 1981-; Weststeijn, Arthur,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rutjes, Mart, 1981-; Weststeijn, Arthur,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of political thought ; Volume 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. The essays in this volume focus on the Dutch Republic during the revolutionary era, as well as early modern Spain and Venice, the German Enlightenment, and the Weimar Republic. ; Readership: Students of republicanism, political culture, intellectual history, the history of political thought, the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions, the history of the Netherlands, early modern European history, and German history.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Republican Decline in Context -- 1 The Dutch Republic and the Problem of Decline -- 2 The Many Guises of Patriotism and Politeness -- 3 Politics, Culture, and the Transnational History of Republicanism -- 2. Trends and Transitions in Dutch Commercial Republicanism, 1600-1800 -- 1 Commercial Republicanism Meets Reason of State -- 2 Commercial Republicanism Meets Decline -- 3 Commercial Republicanism Meets Statistik -- 4 Conclusion -- 3. Becoming Spinoza: On the Failure of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus -- 1 The Purpose of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus -- 2 From Theology to Politics -- 3 Facing Failure -- 4 Conclusion -- 4. Republicanism and Slavery in Dutch Intellectual Culture, 1600-1800 -- 1 Ideas about Slavery and Equality in the Seventeenth Century -- 2 Commerce, Corruption, and Slavery in the Eighteenth Century -- 3 Sentimental Theatre and the Rebellious Slave -- 4 Conclusion -- 5. The Problem of National Debt in Dutch Republican Thought: Joan Derk van der Capellen -- 1 Van der Capellen -- 2 Luzac -- 3 Conclusion -- 6. Polite Batavians: The Uses of the Past in Late-Eighteenth-Century Dutch Spectators -- 1 Enlightenment Historical Thought in the Dutch Spectators -- 2 From Rude Batavians to Refined Dutchmen -- 3 The Return of the Batavian Past -- 4 Conclusion -- 7. Vulnerable Virtue: The Enlightened Pessimism of Dutch Revolutionaries at the End -- 1 Classical Republican Limits to Enlightenment Politics -- 2 Material Progress and Moral Corruption -- 3 Civilized Virtue? -- 4 Conclusion -- 8. A Republican Patriot on His Own Pedestal: Joan Hendrik Swildens (1746-1809) -- 1 Enlightened Patriotism -- 2 The Dangers of Democracy -- 3 True Republicanism -- 4 Private and Christian Virtues -- 5 Conclusion.

9. The Demise of Dutch Republicanism in the Nineteenth Century -- 1 The Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Republicanism -- 2 Depolitization Under the Restoration Regime -- 3 The Constitutional Turn -- 4 Republicanism in the Margins -- 5 Liberalism and Republicanism -- 6 Conclusion -- 10. Braving the Batavians: Classical Models and Countering Rebellion in the Spanish Empire -- 1 Second Flanders -- 2 Anatomy of a Rebel -- 3 War or Peace? -- 4 Conclusion -- 11. Reshaping the Republican Ritual: The Entry of the Procurators of St Mark in Early Modern Venice -- 1 The Procurators' Election: Ritual, Ceremony, and Literature -- 2 The Expansion of the Ceremony in the Seventeenth Century -- 3 Luxury between the Republic and the Family -- 4 Conclusion -- 12. Greek Political Models in the German Enlightenment Press -- 1 German Enlightenment Press and the Formation of Public Opinion -- 2 Lycurgus and Solon and the Purpose of the State -- 3 Ancient Athens and the Problem of Democracy -- 4 The French Revolution in Light of Ancient Examples -- 5 Conclusion -- 13. The European Republic from the Enlightenment to the Counter-Revolution -- 1 Matrices of Enlightenment Europe -- 2 A Balanced System -- 3 Conclusion -- 14. Conservatism, Republicanism, and Romanticism: Thomas Mann's "Conversion" to Democracy in 1922 -- 1 Culture, Reason, and Humanism -- 2 The Decline of the West -- 3 Overcoming Decadence -- 4 Back to Romanticism -- 5 A German Republic -- Index.