TY - BOOK
T1 - Discourses of Decline
T2 - Essays on Republicanism in Honor of Wyger R.E. Velema
AU - Weststeijn, Arthur
A2 - Oddens, Joris
A2 - Rutjes, Mart
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. While scholarship on republicanism thrives, the idea of decline, which has been prominent in republican theory since antiquity, has received relatively little attention. The essays in this volume take a broad cultural perspective and study a wide variety of authors and (con)texts to situate decline among the key concepts in the history of republicanism. Most contributions focus on the Dutch Republic during the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions, the area of expertise of Wyger Velema, to whom this volume is dedicated. Other case studies include early modern Spain and Venice, the German Enlightenment, and the Weimar Republic.
AB - This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. While scholarship on republicanism thrives, the idea of decline, which has been prominent in republican theory since antiquity, has received relatively little attention. The essays in this volume take a broad cultural perspective and study a wide variety of authors and (con)texts to situate decline among the key concepts in the history of republicanism. Most contributions focus on the Dutch Republic during the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions, the area of expertise of Wyger Velema, to whom this volume is dedicated. Other case studies include early modern Spain and Venice, the German Enlightenment, and the Weimar Republic.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004470651
DO - 10.1163/9789004470651
M3 - Book editing
VL - 17
BT - Discourses of Decline
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -